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Urgent action should be taken to stop the discharge of chemicals. “I am very concerned about this matter because some child may be killed. He said the Taranaki Harbours Board had turned a “blind eye” to this and he was not happy. Laing said birds were being poisoned because chemicals were reaching the foreshore via the pipe, which should have been extended beyond the low tide mark. In the July 1967 letter, Commissioner of Works J. “In some stormy-type sessions, you could even taste it in your mouth and quite often the whole of Back Beach along where that stormwater outlet, drain outlet was, the water was nothing but foam as though someone had tipped a packet of washing powder in there,” Stoppard said.Īt about the same time Stoppard and his mates were regular surfers at Back Beach, the Ministry of Works wrote to the Marine Department about the stormwater pipe that Ivan Watkins factory fed into. The 67-year-old, who now lives in Melbourne, remembers the reek of chemicals while out surfing nearby in his early teens. Jimmy Stoppard grew up on Marama Crescent, which backs onto the Paritūtū plant. Levels of TCDD were highest in the herbicide in the 1960s. It has been linked to cancers and birth defects. It contained the dioxin TCDD, which was a key component in Agent Orange - the defoliant used by the US military in the Vietnam War.

Ivon Watkins, later Ivon Watkins-Dow, made the herbicide 2, 4, 5-T at Paritūtū from the 1960s until 1987. The documents were uncovered as part of research for the paper Silencing Paritūtū, which claims there was a longstanding campaign to suppress evidence about the risks of dioxin emissions from a herbicide plant at Paritūtū during the 1960s. Never-before-seen documents show a senior Government official feared children could die if they came into contact with toxic chemicals that were pouring directly onto a popular New Plymouth beach.

Simon Barnett & James Daniels Afternoons Podcast.