Funding announced to address historical contamination
The Government has announced funding from the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund to clean up six contaminated sites to reduce the risk to public health and protect the environment.
The new allocations from the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund address historical contamination, which in many cases started in the Nineteenth Century.
The funds are for projects that relate to:
- a former landfill in Christchurch
- a former landfill in Bluff
- an old gasworks site in Oamaru
- two former gold mines in Thames/Coromandel
- a former defence site at Awaroa/Godley Head near Lyttelton Harbour
The $2.08 million funding from the Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund for the six projects will be bolstered by $1.55m from project partners, for a total of $3.63m across the projects.