Paint residue is now embedded in the texture of the wall brickwork of the unisex toilets and a faint trail of blue paint can still be seen on the foreshore pavement and retaining wall that dresses the southern end of the Manning River foreshore.

The vandalism happened on Friday night (January 1) and community calls to Greater Taree City Council on Saturday saw staff place a request to its volunteer graffiti removal expert who prefers to remain anonymous and he worked intermittently over the next three days with a high pressure hose and chemicals to clean and then paint some of the defaced areas of the park and public toilet.

A long line of bright pink paint trailed up the stairs leading to the back wall of the park, the word 'dick' was written in the outline of a t-shirt, male genitals were drawn in the toilet, on the rear wall of the park and on the foreshore pavement, the word 'Jesus' featured on a cubicle wall and on steps leading from toilet, 'RIP' also marked the pavement in three locations, and paint was also tipped and sprayed into one of the toilets.

The man who council turns to for its clean-ups in the Manning Valley has been busy in 2016; he uses a phone to photograph every item he has had to remove and so far the photo gallery count sits at 1309.

He is proud of the work that he does for the community and says that normally he is the "only one who knows about the extent of graffiti in this town because I clean it off before it gets noticed."

However, this graffiti incident did not go unnoticed as it was reported to council and an image shared by 'Gail Glittering' on the Facebook page, 'Thumbs Up Manning Valley' with the comment, "A big thank you to GTCC for the new amenities block down on the river bank. A big thumbs down to the idiots who get some strange pleasure in vandalising it."

The graffiti incident is the first for the Harry Bennett Park toilet block which opened late last month as council acted to open it early to provide additional public toilet facilities for the community over the holiday season. Work will soon begin to complete a feature in each of the three cubicles that will make them one of the best seats in the Manning Valley.

In its planning stages, the $167,000 toilet block was informally dubbed "the loo with the view" as architects Russell and Carolyn McFarland of Austin McFarland Architects designed the block to incorporate the great view of the Manning River by a strategically placed mirror on the roof of each of the three toilets cubicles.

It is expected the mirrors will be installed at the end of January.

ainslee.dennis@fairfaxmedia.com.au