New Zealand contractor fined over illegal dumping of demolition waste.
A Christchurch demolition company has been fined $6,000 and ordered to pay costs to Environment Canterbury after being found guilty of dumping demolition waste into a pit at a farm in Yaldhurst. The farm was located above an unconfined aquifer, and there was no resource consent allowing the dumping of the demolition waste at that location.
J Mould Demolition pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally dumping waste material on the property of Andrew John Pattullo at 81-83 Conservators Road, Yaldhurst, west of Christchurch. On July 7, 2009, Environment Canterbury officers investigated a report that trucks containing waste had entered Mr Pattullo’s property and intercepted a truck belonging to J Mould Demolition.
The driver admitted that he had deposited three truckloads of demolition material earlier that day. Upon inspecting the property, officers observed that the pit where it had been dumped contained treated timber and other waste material which Mr Pattullo admitted had been deposited on his land by the demolition company. Mr Pattullo was prosecuted and fined for unauthorised discharges to air and land in late 2009 in a separate case.
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