Community teams working hard to clean up the mess left after an illegal woodland rave in Leeds have shared details about what they have found at the site.
Three people were arrested by police after around 200 revellers attended the illegal rave at Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve on Monday night.
Dozens of volunteers from the area, including from the 'Kirkstall Valley Flytip Trolleys Litter Antisocial Behaviour' Facebook group, have now listed a lot of what they found while cleaning up the mess - giving an indication of what was going on before police arrived.
It took more than three hours to clean the site, where 100 balloons were found, more than 600 helium containers "scattered everywhere" as well as many “toileting areas" were discovered and five fire pits.
Yesterday LeedsLive also came across underwear and a blown up mattress at the site also.
The mess was not the only damage found by the volunteers, a magpie fledgling was laying on the ground near the "main dance area", new pathways had been made through some dense vegetation and two trees were damaged.
Despite a couple of people from the local area cleaning some of the mess left by ravers, there was still a lot of work to do.
The Kirkstall Valley group said: “There was still a lot to do! All the small stuff, about 100 balloons intact and burst in pieces, more beer bottles, cans, a lot of broken glass, over 600 of the small metal helium containers scattered everywhere on the main dance area, on paths and at other locations on the island (we never want to see those metal things again!).
“There were about 5 fire pits where groups had gone off for their own gathering, discarding items along the way, bottles, cans, balloon, metal canisters thrown in vegetation. We found many toileting areas some of which people had walked through dense vegetation trampling a new path so they could toilet!
“A poor magpie fledgling was laying on the ground right at the edge of the main dance area. We will never know the damage that was caused to the many other breeding birds with the noise disturbance alone from 9pm until the music stopped.
“New pathways had been made through some dense vegetation. All the waste left behind would have caused damage to wildlife. Two young trees had been broken on the main path into the reserve.
“We still have to arrange for the waste to be boated across from the island as some of those bags are pretty heavy.”
