Gasworks site chemicals
Sir,—So now we have another hazardous chemical associated with the gasworks site. .Phosphorus, a substance widely used in incendiary bombs, spreads with the application of water and is not extinguished by it, as we were taught when training to fight incendiary fires. Are we to assume that the phosphorus just discovered is confined totally to the area in which it became apparent when it fired? Perhaps it would be safer to assume that a certain amount has already found its way to the Waimairi tip, where it is another hazard in that area. That possibility indicates a potential timebomb on the foreshore. It also gives one reason to doubt the viability of the site for any form of development, whether industrial or commercial. I would not care to work or to move around the gasworks site until proper decontamination processes have been carried out, if that is possible. — Yours, etc (Mrs) A. J. FLANAGAN. January 8, 1986.
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