The NZ government’s new rules are that NO stream or waterway needs to be avoided by helicopters dropping 1080 poison

A repost reminding you of the waterways & risks to health via 1080

Rangitikei Environmental Health Watch

BUFFER ZONES ROUND LAKES, RIVERS AND STREAMS NO LONGER A REQUIREMENT AT 1080 POISON DROPS

By Carol Sawyer

Someone has just asked me if having GPS in a helicopter means 1080 poison baits do not need to be dropped into waterways – i.e.that streams and waterways could be avoided.

Well, yes, but ag pilots tell me,  and Murray Dench also explains this quite well in the post below) that, even with GPS, bait-dropping can only be accurate with some certainty to within a minimum of 200 metres, and even then, so-called ” overflies” happen (i.e. baits land outside the drop zone).

A good example of an “overfly” was the Kepler Mountains drop at Lake Manapouri in Spring 2016 when a 200 ha area outside the drop zone was covered in 1080 baits by HeliOtago.

(Even though protestors were initially blamed for this, HeliOtago later admitted the cause was that their…

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