'Bumper' salt volumes in cyclone recovery for Dominion Salt

'Bumper' salt volumes in cyclone recovery for Dominion Salt

Harvest produced nothing after being disrupted by Cyclone Gabrielle.

‘Bumper’ salt volumes in cyclone recovery for Dominion Salt

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Monique Steele of RNZ The wrath of Cyclone Gabrielle sent strong winds and heavy rainfall from the North Island’s East Coast down to the top of the South Island in February 2023. The storm smashed parts of Marlborough, including the country’s only solar evaporative salt field at Lake Grassmere south of Blenheim, right before harvest was about to begin. Happening just four times in its 77-year history, producer and refi…