15 Feb 2022

Calls for probe into New Plymouth treatment plant wastewater

From Morning Report, 7:51 am on 15 February 2022

A $3 million operation to remove highly toxic dioxin from the New Plymouth wastewater treatment plant has sparked calls for an investigation into where else the compound may be lurking.

The council is removing contaminated sludge from a decommissioned lagoon at the plant which is being dried and bagged before being transported to a specialist landfill.

Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin reports.