Article: Govt to fund plan for clean-up of toxic dump; ... a secret Canterbury World War 2 fuel depot ...

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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