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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
News<br />
Bromley’s stinky sites investigated<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
MORE THAN 60 sites in<br />
Bromley have been investigated<br />
for potentially causing a stink<br />
– but none were warranted bad<br />
enough for action.<br />
Environment Canterbury and<br />
the city council have carried out<br />
an odour investigation project<br />
in the suburb, which currently<br />
gets the most<br />
complaints in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
The project’s<br />
findings are<br />
being analysed<br />
and will be used<br />
Ross Trotter<br />
to help further<br />
investigations<br />
as odour complaints<br />
continued.<br />
City council solid waste manager<br />
Ross Trotter said it<br />
was created to help provide a<br />
register of the industrial sites<br />
in Bromley to assess “potential<br />
odour risk”.<br />
Of the 270 sites surveyed, 60<br />
were noted as being activities<br />
or industries that could create<br />
odour. Seventeen of those had<br />
already been noted as being “at<br />
risk.”<br />
“During the survey undertaken,<br />
three sites’ activities were<br />
noted for further investigation to<br />
Environment Canterbury,” Mr<br />
Trotter said.<br />
“These activities were reviewed<br />
by a senior resource management<br />
officer and no pollution<br />
event was raised, as he was<br />
confident there was no further<br />
concern.”<br />
Bromley has long had an<br />
odour problem.<br />
The city council-owned organics<br />
processing plant Living Earth<br />
on Metro Place, which deals<br />
with the contents of green bins,<br />
has been the source of most of<br />
the complaints.<br />
In 2016, a putrid stench<br />
wafted over the suburb plaguing<br />
residents and forcing Bromley<br />
School to close for two days,<br />
though the source was never<br />
determined.<br />
Christchurch West Melton<br />
Banks Peninsula zone manager<br />
Steve Firth said the investigation<br />
meant they could determine<br />
the “character” of the different<br />
odours and how to deal with<br />
them in the future.<br />
Since January 1, Bromley has<br />
had the highest number of odour<br />
complaints in the city.<br />
ECan stats show there had<br />
SMELLY: Bromley<br />
has long had an<br />
odour problem,<br />
with many of<br />
the previous<br />
complaints having<br />
come from the<br />
Living Earth plant. <br />
been about 108 reports of odour,<br />
and 58 odour events.<br />
An odour event is when complaints<br />
are received for the same<br />
location during any 24-hour<br />
period.<br />
Fifty-one of the odour events<br />
were from Metro Place, where<br />
Living Earth is, three came from<br />
Senior Place, two from Tanya St,<br />
and one each from Wickham St<br />
and Francella Place.<br />
Mr Firth said of the 16 substantiated<br />
odour events, many<br />
were not deemed offensive, while<br />
the source was unable to be<br />
found at others.<br />
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