During the response to both incidents and in the days afterwards water samples were collected from both the affected waterway and Ahuriri Estuary. Napier City and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council staff continued to investigate the causes of each incident “to ensure events of this type do not occur in future”. The acid spill, which came from Galvanising Hawke’s Bay, occurred last Friday in the Thames St area, which then entered the storm water system and into the Tyne St drain.
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Hydrochloric acid was spilled into the Ahuriri Estuary on Friday afternoon. The Napier City Council used vacuum trucks which extracted 40,000 litres of acid-contaminated water, during the night.
Taradale High win national adventure racing title
15 Dec, 2020 01:18 AM
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Taradale won their first junior national adventure racing title last Friday. Photo / Supplied
Taradale High School won their first ever National Get2Go adventure racing title after a week of competition on Great Barrier Island. Years 9 and 10 students Theo Roberts, Emma Bryant, Greer Findlay, Reeve Doone, Ben Wilson, Charlie Evans, Olivia Munialo and Ella Brassington came out on top of 12 schools from around New Zealand.
Get2Go is made up of a series of outdoor adventure challenges including orienteering, kayaking, stand-up paddling, mountain biking and a little bit of problem solving, held at the Hillary Outdoors Marine Centre on Great Barrier Island.