PHOTO: Rural land near the Ohakea air base. (file pic) Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller
The $6.4 million purchase price for the 99ha farm was about three times the average per hectare sale price of farmland in the area.
Groundwater near the farm on the airbase’s southern boundary has recorded high levels of firefighting foam chemical contamination in NZDF investigations.
The problems with per and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals had nothing to do with it, the NZDF said in a statement.
“The purchase was not PFAS related.”
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