The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is continuing to monitor the Orini Channel in the Eastern Bay of Plenty following a bitumen spill at about 9am.
The council's communications manager, Bronwyn Campbell, says a truck carrying about 20,000 litres of bitumen overturned on State Highway 2, near Edgecumbe.
She says the material leaked into the Orini Channel.
'Our pollution prevention team attended the accident along with emergency services.
'Bunting was placed at either end of the channel to contain the tar and is being removed with a sucker and digger.”
2 comments
Hmmm
Posted on 07-12-2011 19:19 | By The_Courier
Was the cause of the crash a bit too fast round the bends there ? Not the first truck to go off round that area and surely won't be the last.........
After
Posted on 08-12-2011 10:29 | By Capt_Kaveman
all these years they still havn't fixed or straightend this road the person who 1st put in this route must have been drunk while on the bulldozer like many of the roads in this country including modern city roads its hard to find straight layouts
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