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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.