It may be a delicate issue, but everyone needs access to a clean, working toilet every day, complete with handwashing facilities.
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Not a big or even difficult ask.
But, for a group of volunteers maintaining the Darawank War Memorial Park, on Tuncurry's outskirts, this is not the case.
For more than five years this group has been asking MidCoast Council (Great Lakes) to replace the pit or long-drop facility tucked away behind the trees at the park, with a unisex, disability toilet complete with running water for washing hands.
Their numerous requests have not been ignored, with council acknowledging in November 2011 its environmental health and parks department had begun working on a grant application to replace the existing facilities.
It its letter to the Darawank War Memorial Park Volunteer Group, council did warn that grant funding was not a guaranteed source of funding, and that this could take several attempts to secure.
However, five years on the long awaited unisex toilet and handwashing facility have not come to fruition.
Stretching along the Wallamba River the four acre park began life back in 1975 as a bush patch and an unused strip of bitumen which was once the Lakes Way.
Over the years a group of dedicated volunteers have developed the area into beautifully maintained parkland complete with parking area and jetty and covered picnic tables.
But not a hygienic toilet.
“People love the park, but not the toilet,” volunteer John McNeil said.
“We do our best to keep it clean,”he said.
“But, it is not the most hygienic place travellers or parents of children using the park would want to use."
Without the weekly visit from the men the park and the toilet would be a mess.
To get rid of the smell coming from the toilet pit some users light the toilet roll, while on other occasions the volunteers have been forced to scrub smeared faeces off the walls.
And, mowing isn't the only chore these volunteers do.
Sometimes the smell coming from the toilets is so offensive members of the public have ‘gone’ in nearby bushes, Mr McNeil said.
“We have had to dispose of both human and dog waste,”he said.
Replying to the group's request for a suitable facility, council's parks and recreation manager Andrew Staniland acknowledged that MidCoast Council was grateful for the support of community groups in seeking funding for improvements in our region.
“Council has been working with this community group to assist with grant funding proposals,”Mr Staniland said.
“The Community Building Program is currently open and we hope to continue to work together to apply for a grant."
The group also has approach the Great Lakes RSL sub-branch about the possibility of a State government Community Building Partnership grant.