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Canterbury chemical spill: Harrison Spraying Services fined $120,000 for incident that killed hundreds of fish 23 Apr, 2021 04:32 AM 2 minutes to read Mt Somers. File photo / 123rf NZ Herald A Canterbury company has been fined $120,000 for contaminating a Mt Somers waterway, killing hundreds of fish. Harrison Spraying Services was sentenced on April 21 after earlier pleading guilty to spilling an agrichemical onto land near a stock water race which runs through Mt Somers village, west of Christchurch. The Canterbury Regional Council said a truck driver for the company was mixing a tank of the...

Mt Somers (file image). Photo: 123rf Harrison Spraying Services was sentenced on 21 April, after earlier pleading guilty to spilling an agrichemical onto land near a stock water race which runs through Mt Somers village, west of Christchurch. The Canterbury Regional Council said a truck driver for the company was mixing a tank of the chemical with water from the race when it overflowed. The council estimated between 600 to 1000 fish died along a roughly 6-kilometre stretch of the waterway. That included brown trout, common bullies, native kōkopu and kēwai (freshwater crayfish). Inspections...