10am - 2pm, Saturday 10th July at Mid
Canterbury Community House, 44 Cass St, Ashburton
10am
- 2pm, Sunday 11th July at Alpine Energy Community Centre,
Fergusson Drive, Temuka
Greenpeace is running the
testing in conjunction with the Federation of Freshwater
Anglers.
This is the third and fourth day of testing
run by Greenpeace, with previous testing held in May at
Dunsandel and Woodend in Canterbury. Results
from these earlier testing days can be found
here.
The major causes
of nitrate pollution are a huge increase in dairy cows and
synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use since
1990.
Greenpeace is supporting calls from medical