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Names tracked down at illegal dump site
Kane Blake of the Okanagan Forest Task Force is disgusted by what he found over an embankment on Postill Lake Road in Ellison over the weekend. “There’s diapers, tupperware containers, household garbage.
A video posted to the task force’s Facebook group shows Blake pointing out, spent rounds of shotgun ammunition, shingles, insulation and dozens of garbage bags strewn across the wooded area along Postill Lake Road, behind the Kelowna International Airport. “I haven’t even made it a kilometre in and I’m already absolutely disgusted,” Blake says in the video. “Literally everywhere I look is dumped yard waste, dumped garbage, wildlife swimming with garbage, streams that have burnt propane tanks sitting beside them …” At one point, Blake gets upset as he turns to a duck
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I will report what I find. I found 2 trashed and abandoned truck campers. I will send the coordinates if I find them. Thank you for what you do. I continue to pick up what I can carry in the bush. The wilderness is my sanctuary. It doesn’t seem like a sanctuary when you find junk and feel the disrespect that got it there.