Ratepayers are set to fork out more than just a bit of sawdust for the clean up of an oil spill at Kowhai Park skate bowl, with Whanganui District Council saying the job will absorb
Kowhai Park skate bowl clean up to cost Whanganui ratepayers at least $5000
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The clean up is under way at the Kowhai Park skate bowl. Photo / Ethan Griffiths
Mayor Hamish McDouall said the "punks" responsible for the damage have taken from others in the community.
"It's extremely disappointing to have to spend that to recondition two very much loved facilities. Both the track and the skate bowl are well used and really great facilities.
"A couple of punks have come in and cost everybody in the community both money and also the ability to use these amenities."
The spill wasn't the first case of serious vandalism in recent months.
In October, the playground at Lorenzdale Park in Gonville was vandalised, resulting in around $90,000 worth of damage. Only a week earlier, a urinal unit was ripped off a wall at the Virginia Lake toilet facility.
In early September, Eastside Playcentre was also the victim of a vandal attack, with sheds found open, equipment scattered, and padlocks and carabiners thrown away or stolen.
The vandals also spread human excrement across a wall and wrote offensive words on the chalkboard.