A family may have to spend more than $20,000 cleaning up dumped asbestos on its vacant block in Yeppoon, despite Livingstone Shire Council reducing its disposal fee. Ben Carew and Claire Palmer, who live in Brisbane, were left with a "huge financial impost" when the council told them in December last year that potentially toxic material had been left on their land on Buccaneer Avenue in Lammermoor. Councillors decided at a meeting in January to decline a request from the family to reduce or waive the disposal fees of $11,000. This Tuesday, however, Councillor Andrea Friend moved motions to repeal that resolution and reduce the fee by half, making it an estimated $5,490 for the disposal of 60 cubic metres of asbestos.