The Government has doubled its funding for the clean-up of the Fox River, with an additional $300,000 coming from three departments.
Half of the contents of the Fox River rubbish dump was scattered throughout a National Park and Marine Reserve after the dump was gouged out by a one in 100-year storm on March 26.
The Department of Conservation took over as lead agency for the clean-up of the riverbed and beach on June 19.
Since DOC took over, the Ministry for the Environment, Land Information New Zealand and DOC have agreed to provide an extra $100,000 each from existing budgets for the clean-up efforts, said Eugenie Sage, Conservation Minister, Land Information Minister and Associate Environment Minister.
This is on top of the approximately $150,000 of operational support already provided by DOC and is in addition to the $300,000 of Government support provided to Westland District Council for the clean-up in early May, Ms Sage said today.
The $300,000 provided to the council in May was made up of $100,000 from the Environment Ministry and $200,000 from DOC.
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