By Cam Lucadou-Wells A Chesterfield-style couch, mattress, suitcases and furniture have formed part of an illegal dumping site in central Springvale. The pile – one of multitudes in Greater Dandenong – has grown over several days on Queens Avenue opposite Buckingham Avenue. After being alerted on Monday 8 March, Greater Dandenong Council reported the mess to VicTrack, which owns the site adjoining the city-bound railway line. The eye-sore shocked councillor Richard Lim, who has publicly pledged to beautify Springvale as a tourist attraction. “It’s a very bad image for Springvale, and very widespread.” It’s one of many garbage mounds piled up on roadsides, nature strips, creeks and fields in suburbs and rural parts of Greater Dandenong found by Star Journal photographer Gary Sissons on 10 March.