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'Slip up' Costs Council: $1.49m Fix Needed for Leaking Tauranga Landfill Site

Tauranga City Council will install a leachate capture system and stormwater diversion to prevent environmental harm after discovering contamination dating back to the 1990s.

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Stopping leachate from an old dump site entering a Tauranga stream will cost the council nearly $1.5m to fix. Tauranga City Council must carry out...

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'Slip up' costs council with $1.49m fix needed for leaking landfill site

Stopping leachate from an old dump site entering a Tauranga stream will cost the council nearly $1.5m to fix.

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'Slip up' costs council: $1.49m fix needed for leaking Tauranga landfill site

Stopping leachate from an old dump site entering a Tauranga stream will cost the council nearly $1.5m to fix. Tauranga City Council must carry out...

·Auckland, New Zealand
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NZ Herald broke the news in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
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