An official from Chichester District Council also allegedly said that ropes and harnesses would be needed to prevent workers from being washed away.
The bizarre health and safety requirements were listed by an official from the district council's fly-tipping department, according to David Barnard, a local parish councillor.
He described the council's attempt to impose the regulations as "bureaucracy gone mad".
It comes less than a week after the council was criticised for issuing guidance to avoid using the phrase the "man on the street" on the grounds that it is "inherently sexist".
Cllr Barnard, the vice-chairman of Harting Parish Council in West Sussex, contacted his local authority after receiving complaints that the old metal bin had fallen into the stream.
It was pouring out rubbish including dog faeces at the end of a footpath where mothers and children walk to school.
Binmen had allegedly refused to empty it on their regular rounds because it was not a council-owned bin.
Cllr Barnard, 60, a carpets retailer and chairman of the Harting village cricket club, said he had received 12 complaints about the mess.
"I spoke to someone from the department dealing with fly-tipping and he said - and I quote - 'We don't have anyone qualified to wear wellington boots'. I said: 'But it's only four inches deep'.
"Then he said that the problem was that they also needed harnesses and ropes to stop them getting washed away."
According to Cllr Barnard, the council informed him that it would take at least a week before the local authority could clean up the mess.
"It's bureaucracy gone mad," Cllor Barnard added.
Eventually, three parish councillors donned their wellington boots and tidied the mess themselves, a chore that took 10 minutes One of those involved, Terry Curran, the council chairman, said: "I took the contents and the bin to the local dump.
"Everyone seems to be frightened of lawsuits these days. We nearly had to scrap our annual litter clean-up because the district council feared someone might get hurt and would sue. We got round that but other parishes have just stopped having them."
Seriously we need to take some people out at dawn and shoot the cunts without even the benefit of a last smoke, that said the tofu eating, Guardian reading cunts would bitch about it being a no-smoking zone and how a cunting no cunting smoking sign is not on display if offered a smoke....
Gordon Brown a man who makes me so angry I could punch his light
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Not Qualified to wear Welies!! Sweeet Jaysus!
What next rubber rings or even better fencing off puddles in the street so some small child can't drown in it?!
"Eventually, three parish councillors donned their wellington boots and tidied the mess themselves"
I presume they did this without the relavent safety equipment ... The fucking rebels !
They should at least be hauled over the coals like those poor bastards with the lifeboat.Cunts.
Agree anon.
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