| Real fear - to be sprayed in a matter of seconds |
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| By Rosemary Bonda |
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The wetland area due to be sprayed is within Rodney county. Aerial spraying is due to occur next Monday is 5 kilometres from where I live. Rodney council has not bothered to contact me -- yet others have been told.
No one is offering relocation. With the high winds around here, I believe it would take a matter of seconds to reach our place if winds developed after the spray operation.
We have a horse grazing and are on rainwater, but their insistence that there will be no spray drift makes it difficult to ask for help in relocation. A group of us got together and attended a Waitakere Council Community Board meeting last Tuesday night and requested that the spraying is postponed till proper public notification has occurred. Also so that local organic beekeepers can remove all the honey from their hives. I am not sure if they have officially decided on this yet, but were consulting with their partners. The sprays used are both toxic to aquatic organisms. 'Glyphosate Green' is the one Rodney council uses on it's roads and we all know how toxic that is. Can you imagine 4 hours of aerial spraying and how that will affect people and wildlife? Rodney weed spraying trials with Biosafe were cancelled but I am still waiting to hear what is happening next? -- Rosemary Bonda As one of hundreds of chemically sensitive people in RDC. |