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Sewage leak caused by wet wipes being flushed down toilet turns Glen Innes' Omaru Creek black, kills fish and eels [1]

A sewage leak, which Watercare says was caused by someone flushing wet wipes down the toilet, has left the water in an east Auckland creek black and filled with dead fish and eels.

Publication Date: 
08/02/2017
New Zealand Herald [2]
Tags:
New Zealand [3], Water Pollution [4], Sewage [5], Fish [6]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/new-zealand-herald
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/new-zealand
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sewage
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fish