Cleaning up Mapua: The history of the Fruitgrowers' Chemical Company site
For many years the Fruitgrowers’ Chemical Company (FCC) at Mapua was known as New Zealand’s most contaminated site.
The Ministry for the Environment took over the remediation of the site in 2004, the first time a New Zealand government entity had become the owner of a remediation project.
The clean-up posed significant challenges, including the amount of contamination and the site’s location sandwiched between a residential area and a sensitive marine ecosystem. Many lessons have been learnt from this clean-up, both by the Ministry and New Zealand as a whole.
The Ministry has published a history of FCC and the clean-up called Cleaning up Mapua: The history of the Fruitgrowers’ Chemical Company site to make good a promise to the community to tell their story and that of the site clean-up, so they are not forgotten.
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The Mapua remediation
Contaminated land
Last updated: 7 November 2011
