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A third generation Mackay cane farmer has been fined $42,000 after polluting a popular fishing spot with demolition waste because he was trying to stop erosion to his Mount Jukes property.
The offending which spanned seven months from June 2019 to January 2020 was labelled a “serious example” of environmental and development breaches.
Rodney Victor Vassallo deposited 180 to 320 tonnes of demolition scrap over a 170-metre stretch at Constant Creek.
The waste material included bricks, concrete blocks with reinforced steel bars and PVC piping.
Mackay Magistrates Court heard he had placed the debris along the banks – that backed onto his Yakapari Seaforth Road property – and into the water in a bid to try and prevent further erosion.
Police have been captured pulling thousands of dollars in cash out of a north Queensland mattress following a major drug raid that saw six people arrested this past weekend.
Officers from Mackay raided the Landsdowne Road, West Mackay home on Sunday, allegedly seizing drugs, a car and more than $180,000 in cash.
Bodycam footage from the raid has shown officers discovering a hole in a mattress in one of the beds. They pull out an air-sealed bag of money.
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Bags of cash were pulled from a mattress.(Queensland Police)
The video then shows several other bags inside the mattress, adding to a total of $186,000 found in the raid.
A magistrate has adjourned the case against a third generation Mackay cane farmer who polluted a popular fishing spot with construction waste so environmental officers can inspect the location.
Rodney Victor Vassallo, through his barrister, told a court he had taken steps to clean up the 180 to 320 tonnes of demolition scrap he deposited over a 170-metre stretch at Constant Creek.
The scaps included bricks, concrete blocks with reinforced steel bars and PVC piping.
Mackay Magistrate Court heard he had placed the construction debris along the banks – that backed onto his Mount Jukes property – and into the water in a bid to try and prevent further erosion.