Since my letter to this publication ‘Sea Lettuce: Nothing has changed', published on Friday, April 12, 2013 – reminding readers of my Friday, December 11, 2009 photo in your newspaper – still nothing has changed here!
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council predicts a bumper crop of sea lettuce in our polluted harbour this summer, due mainly, so they say, to El Nino.
Tauranga Harbour Watch Inc wonders why Ohiwa Harbour, Ohope and Wangamata Harbour are not also so cursed with this putrid infestation.
We also wonder why a certain factory with a Regional Council granted resource consent until 2017 continues to discharge into our very polluted harbour suspended solids, dissolved reactive phosphorous, ammoniacal nitrogen, fluoride, wastewater and an anti-fouling agent, octadecylamine.
Does El Nino not happen at Ohiwa and Whangamata?

H Rhodes, Chairperson, Tauranga Harbour Watch Inc