`Thousands` of dead eels found in Taranaki stream after meat plant ammonia leak
(WorldNews New Zealand)

Taranaki Regional Council have opened an investigation after `thousands` of dead eels were found in the stream running next to Silver Fern Farms` Hawera plant following an ammonia leak last week. Dead eels in the Tawhiti Stream near the Silver Fern Farms meatworks in Hawera after an ammonia leak. Source: Supplied Employees of the meat processing plant were evacuated on Wednesday afternoon after a valve failure led to a significant leak of ammonia. A one-kilometre cordon was set up and the leak was controlled, and the plant was handed back to Silver Ferns Farms by emergency services about 1am on Thursday. In a statement this morning, Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) confirmed they were alerted...