These are just some of the pieces of rubbish which ended up on the Kully Bay foreshore after being washed into Lake Illawarra by the huge storms in recent weeks.

One disgusted resident said this pollution is a regular event after big rains, and eventually it will all drift out and sink in the lake.

A spokesman for Wollongong City Council said Lake Illawarra was “a complex site” with both Wollongong and Shellharbour councils, and government agencies, involved in its management.

But council had taken action to clean up the sites, including the one pictured above. “This week … we are carrying out clean ups at Kully Bay, Purry Burry Bay and along the foreshore area near the old Merinda wharf,” the spokesman said.