Photo: Supplied via NZHA Christchurch resident says it should not have taken a dog's death for the city council to take action over a dirty waterway. A pond in Parklands has now been cornered off since a dog was reportedly killed by algae poisoning. However, Robert Smith said he has been contacting Christchurch City Council regularly for several years to ask it to frequently clean the public waterway in Arthur Adcock Memorial Reserve. "Then it's left, and left, and left, and it becomes an absolute disgrace." A council spokesperson said city waterways are regularly cleaned and the dog's death is potentially from a bacterium growing in the pond.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 22, 2020 22:41 UTC