PHOTO: SUPPLIED A Remuera waterway which was polluted by property developers who were fined $67,800 in the Environment Court.
Property developers working in an upmarket Auckland suburb have been collectively fined $67,800 for repeatedly polluting waterways by washing sediment into the stormwater system.
They were working on a property in Spencer Street, Remuera, when they were caught breaching resource consent conditions requiring proper control of sediment works on the site, Auckland council said.
At one stage, a worker was seen sweeping sediment down the footpath into a cesspit.
Cheng Gao, director of Brother Development Limited, pleaded guilty in the Environment Court to multiple charges of discharging sediment and two breaches of abatement notices.
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