Environment / Rural

Mataura demands removal of potentially toxic ouvea waste

18:14 pm on 20 July 2020

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Mataura residents are demanding the removal of potentially toxic waste after another close call in their town.

The so-called ouvea premix stored in a disused paper mill came under threat again when the building flooded yesterday.

RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown has more.