GEORGE HEARD/STUFF Drone footage shows full extent of the damage to the Waiho Bridge, near Franz Josef on the West Coast. Supplied Some of the rubbish that has spread along South Westland beaches from the closed dump at Fox Glacier. The WDC says the Fox River dump was started by locals in 1948 and authorised in the 1960s. The rubbish on Fiordland beaches had been "investigated and confirmed as not from the old Fox River landfill". There are probably a number of historic closed landfills on private property that nobody knows about until something goes wrong.

Source: Stuff April 08, 2019 03:45 UTC