Eight litter fines issues in Louth in August

Louth County Council has said that a total of eight litter Fixed Penalty Notices were issued in the county during the month of August.

Of the eight fines issued, four were issued in Dundalk town and four in the remaining County wide area. The council adds that it carried out 85 litter investigations during August, and in the year to date in 2023, there have been 796 litter investigations completed.

There have also been 173 litter Fixed Penalty Notices issued in the year to date in Louth. The local authority says that its litter wardens continue to investigate all reports of littering and illegal dumping within urban and rural areas in the county.

It adds that litter wardens in Dundalk carried out dog fouling public awareness by stenciling popular dog walking areas such as the Navy bank, St Helena’s Park, Ice House Hill Park and Marian Park.

In terms of diesel laundering waste, Louth County Council says that there were 25 Integrated Bulk Containers’s (IBCs)

dumped in August 2023, with a clean up cost of approximately €31,202.50. So far in 2023 there have been 94 IBC’s dumped within County Louth with an associated removal cost of approximately €117,321.34.