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In a recent media release Environment Bay of Plenty stated that Seaspray Farms Limited was fined $15,729 including costs for three offences – one of pooled effluent with high levels of faecal coliforms, which was pumped directly into the Pukehina Canal as a result of a 'system overwhelmed by run off”; and two for discharging leachate from stock food bunkers into the farm's drains. This statement then appeared in media.

The release should have stated that the three internal farm drains into which the effluent and leachate flowed, all flow into the farm's drainage system which is eventually pumped into the Pukehina Canal.

Seaspray Farms pleaded guilty to all three charges.