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Article: Govt to fund plan for clean-up of toxic dump; ... a secret Canterbury World War 2 fuel depot ...
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- The Press
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- August 20, 2008
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Cleaning up a secret Canterbury World War 2 fuel depot, since
used as a chemical dumping ground, is expected to cost several
million dollars.
Environment Canterbury (ECan) and the Selwyn Plantation Board
yesterday welcomed a Government decision to provide over $100,000 in
funding to investigate cleaning up a contaminated historic fuel
storage site.
ECan sought the funding from the Ministry for the Environment's
Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund on behalf of the board in April.
Agrichemicals, car bodies, batteries and paint containers have
been dumped in the deep, brick-lined pit on plantation board land at
Bankside, near Rakaia, since the 1980s.
It was not known who dumped the waste.
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