Wollongong asbestos clean-up under way

By Kate McIlwain
Updated May 25 2015 - 10:41pm, first published 8:48pm
Bungle: Contractors at work on the Old Princes Highway remove the mounds of construction waste placed there by council in a bid to halt illegal dumping. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Bungle: Contractors at work on the Old Princes Highway remove the mounds of construction waste placed there by council in a bid to halt illegal dumping. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER

Clean-up crews have moved in to take away Wollongong City Council's controversial soil mounds, which were found to be contaminated with asbestos fragments after they were piled along the old Princes Highway in a bid to stop illegal dumpers.

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