Council to remove dump

An old dump spilling into a Banks Peninsula river will be removed at a cost of up to $1 million. Car parts, fridges, bricks, fencing wire, concrete, metal and suspected asbestos cement sheets have been seen along the banks of the Le Bons Bay River, about 1 kilometre upstream from where the river runs into the Pacific Ocean. The 100-metre-long,

10m-wide site operated as a local tip from about 1950 to its closure in 1995. In November

2019, Christchurch City Council staff noticed wastewas being exposed as the riverbank eroded. The council has decided to remove the landfill entirely andmove the rubbish to Kate Valley landfill at a cost of $750,000 to

$1m.