A BECKENHAM man has been fined $3200 and ordered to pay $10,788 in clean up costs for illegally dumping 90 rotting and leaking drums of toxic sludge across Perth. Gary Graham Bound, 32, dumped the rusted 44-gallon drums, which contained a foul-smelling sludge used in industrial fertilizers, in bush in Rivervale, Welshpool, Burswood, Kenwick and Belmont between July 13 and 17 last year.
Bound has pleaded guilty to 11 counts of littering and eight of unauthorised discharge offences in Perth Magistrates Court.
The Department of Environment and Conservation hazards manager Ken Raine said eight of the barrels had leaked into the environment.
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