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7/27/2019 3. An 'Urban Myth' of the Illegal Discharge in Chemical Creek
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PARITUTU CENTENIAL PARK BEFORE IVON WATKINS DOW ARRIVED - AND IWD IN 1968 - BELOW
THE TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCILS REPORT ON RISKS IN 2001 FROM HISTORIC AGRICHEMICAL
WASTE DISPOSAL NOTED THAT FROM 1967 THE TRC PREDECESSOR THE TARANAKI CATCHMENT
COMMISSION HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR DISCHARGES TO WATER. THE REPORT DESCRIBED THE
PARITUTU DISCHARGE AS THE IWD OFFICE BLOCK STORM WATER OUTFALL [WITH OCCASSIONAL
CHEMICAL SPILLS] THE REPORT RE-ASSURED RECENT RESIDENTS THERE WAS NO RISK. HOW-EVER
THE ISSUES ORIGINALLY RAISED WERE OVER HEALTH EFFECTS FROM EXPOSURES 3 TO 4 DECADES
AGO FROM DAILY DISCHARGES OF HUNDREDS OF TONNES OF CHEMICAL WASTES ONTO A PUBLICBEACH AND INTO THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE HECTORS DOLPHIN HAD DISAPPEARED.
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COOLING WATER WAS DISCHARGED TO WASTE AFTER DIOXIN CONTAMINATED TCP WAS REACTED
TO PRODUCE 2,4,5-T. THE PROCESS WAS DESCRIBED IN A JULY 1986 HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORT.
UNTREATED LIQUID WASTES WERE ALSO GENERATED BY 2,4-D AND TRIAZINE MANUFACTURE
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A 1972 COUNCIL MEMO NOTES THE COOLING WATER DISCHARGE WAS APPROX. 300,000 A DAY
AND THAT COUNCIL COULD LEGALLY DISCHARGE STORMWATER BUT NOT THE COOLING WATER .
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AFTER THE REGIONAL COUNCIL DISMISSED HISTORIC EXPOSURE RISKS IN 2000 AND 2001 USING
RESIDUE TESTS FROM 2000 AND 2001 - IN 2007 ANOTHER ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO GAIN SOME
RECOGNITION OF HISTORIC EXPOSURES THE TRC RESPONSE WAS TO TEST TWO GURNARD FISH.