Thread: Westland clean up

Unless you see this mess for yourselves you won't appreciate the damage. Pics and news coverage doesn't show the half of it.

They don't show the rubbish that has washed out to sea and travelled both north and south along our beaches.

People I have been with and myself have picked up some rubbish but there is way too much for us to make a difference.
It is pretty sad really.


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Originally Posted by R93

Unless you see this mess for yourselves you won't appreciate the damage. Pics and news coverage doesn't show the half of it.

They don't show the rubbish that has washed out to sea and travelled both north and south along our beaches.

People I have been with and myself have picked up some rubbish but there is way too much for us to make a difference.
It is pretty sad really.


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and THAT right there was what made me think of a drastic quick solution....YES it causes its own polution...BUT it would remove a hell of alot in a hell of a hurry...

Originally Posted by R93

Unless you see this mess for yourselves you won't appreciate the damage. Pics and news coverage doesn't show the half of it.

They don't show the rubbish that has washed out to sea and travelled both north and south along our beaches.

People I have been with and myself have picked up some rubbish but there is way too much for us to make a difference.
It is pretty sad really.


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Who do you suspect are the worst colprits at not taking out what they had taken in
Think there might be a bit from those river rafting types - most prob lost in roll overs etc (or whatever you call a F up in rubber Duckie

Originally Posted by Sarvo

Who do you suspect are the worst colprits at not taking out what they had taken in
Think there might be a bit from those river rafting types - most prob lost in roll overs etc (or whatever you call a F up in rubber Duckie

It is from a blown out old dump used since the 40s mate. No one individual dumping rubbish while in the riverbed is responsible.

Government and local council have a lot to answer for imo.
You won't believe where some of the rubbish has reached.



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Originally Posted by R93

It is from a blown out old dump used since the 40s mate. No one individual dumping rubbish while in the riverbed is responsible.

Government and local council have a lot to answer for imo.
You won't believe where some of the rubbish has reached.



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OK
Sorry - I thought this was about river rubbish in general - thought bloody hell did not think place was getting used/abused to that degree

So where exactly are we talking about ??
Sounds very odd

Originally Posted by Sarvo

OK
Sorry - I thought this was about river rubbish in general - thought bloody hell did not think place was getting used/abused to that degree

So where exactly are we talking about ??
Sounds very odd

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/11361...stland-council

lol yeah well..... I guess someone put it there...so someone has to pick it up AGAIN....and put it somewhere else AGAIN.
Taumarunui used to tip the rubbish into the gullies down behind the high school and cemetry....thats half a km away from a mojor river and the gullies are old washouts from years gone by.....do wonder if future generations will end up doing the same thing there as is happening on west coast.
and NO I dont biff stuff out car window.
the thousand square kilometres bit doesnt sound right...its a river bed so maybe what 500mtres wide??? even at 1km wide it would have to be 1000kms long...which it physically CANT BE.

Fox Glacier dump blew out when fox River flooded.
Spread rubbish from asshole to breakfast

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Originally Posted by R93

Fox Glacier dump blew out when fox River flooded.
Spread rubbish from asshole to breakfast

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I am shocked !!!!
Now I see what Micky Duck was on about - thought he had lost the plot completely :-)

Originally Posted by Sarvo

I am shocked !!!!
Now I see what Micky Duck was on about - thought he had lost the plot completely :-)

It is way too spread out to do anything but manually pick it up. From what I have seen it is not concentrated in a way that you could pile it up and burn it anyway.


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Anyone hunting Doughboy Bay and Masons Bay on Stewart Island will testify to the piles of plastic strewn around the beaches. Mostly carried from currants from around the world and the westerly winds washing it up. Spose a lot of plastic from the Fox River will end up there as well.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...doubtful-sound

It pisses me off that it has taken from the end of may untill a few days ago to get the army there. It was obvious from the start that this was huge and quick action was required. But great effort from those involved in the clean up

if it was the tongariro river we wouldve seen a different reaction time........

Why, oh why,
Was a dump ever allowed to be established within a bulls roar of a Westland river?????, whoever would approve the site in the first place, the local council has a lot to answer for here! If it'd come from a farm, there'd be all sorts of Bureaucratic grossly overpaid shiny arsed council wallahs screaming blue murder, not to mention the Resource Management lot as well!
Good on the volunteer lot and the locals for their bit, as someone else said, the Govt, the Council, and the army should have been in there from day one!