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Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 1:38 pm
Nelson City Council has closed Founders Heritage Park
while the Defence Force’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit
(EOD) assesses potentially hazardous materials found among
the Park’s collection.
Council, along with many
other organisations around the country, recently carried
out a review of the collection at Founders Heritage Park
following the discovery of picric acid in a Southland
museum.
An examination of the Park’s inventory
found a number of bottles and other items containing
potentially hazardous substances. Picric acid is suspected
to be present, but this has not been confirmed.
Picric
acid was widely used in early forms of medicine and medical
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