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News from Greater Wellington Regional Council
The Regional Council is urging dog owners to keep their dogs away from the Hutt River and Wellington Harbour beaches until staff have checked these areas for dead possums poisoned with 1080.
Dead possums poisoned with 1080, from a possum control operation on Friday 2 July in the Akatarawa Forest, may have been washed down the Hutt River and into Wellington Harbour during today’s heavy rain.
On Sunday, the council Greater Wellington will be erecting warning signs and checking beaches from Petone through to Pencarrow. Once the level of the Hutt River has gone down, staff will check both sides for possum carcasses from Upper Hutt to Petone.

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