The council has been accused of flouting its own fly-tipping laws by dumping surplus gravel beside a main road.
Dalry man John Paterson claims council contractors have dumped tons of road resurfacing stones on his land.
Mr Paterson, 58, who has permission for a house on the site, claims his complaints have been ignored.
He told the News: “I hate fly-tipping and I applaud the council in highlighting the issue on their website.
“But when they pay disregard to their own guidelines, it makes a mockery of it.
“It’s either council lorries or contractors working under instruction of the council.
“It’s surplus gravel from when they were resurfacing.
“I have contacted them on a number of occasions to make sure they are not using it for on any other operations.
“But I have never had any contact from them.”
Mr Paterson, director of forestry at Egger’s chipboard factory at Hexham, added: “If the council treat it is as a dump, why should other people not treat it as a dump?
“They have even put tarmac down even after me telling then it was not their land.”
Mr Paterson raised the matter with community safety officers at the Kirkcudbright Country Fair.
He said: “They told me that they had recently prosecuted an elderly gentleman for fly-tipping on the same site.
“I thought that was a bit rich seeing as the council roads department is doing the same thing.
“They agreed with me and understand the council tends to drop off excess gravel rather than take it back to Abercromby Road.”
Mr Paterson has fired off an angry letter to officials.
He fumed: “Please refrain from illegally dumping surplus road materials on a privately owned site 1.5 miles north of Dalry on the A713.
“You are not above the law and we will take action if it doesn’t cease now.
“You should be aware that your actions are encouraging others to fly tip.”
Mr Paterson, who was born at Barskeoch Farm near Dalry, is currently living in Brampton in Cumbria.
He said: “I’m coming back home to Dalry when the house is finished in three or four years time.
A council spokesperson said: “One of our surface dressing machines broke down and the chips were dumped here as a result of the breakdown.
“There may also be other materials which have been dumped here by the workforce such as edge sweepings etc, as they were under the impression that the area of land was still council land.
