新西兰国家公园旧垃圾填埋场清理工程完成
环境部长 Nicola Grigg 和保护部长 Tama Potaka 宣布，位于 Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park 的两处历史垃圾填埋场修复工程已于本周完成。
该项目总投资 332万纽元，用于清理约 2500立方米废弃物。
这些填埋场曾在1950年至1980年间使用，距离 Aoraki / Mount Cook Village 约3公里。
项目背景
政府表示，这些旧填埋场长期存在环境风险，尤其容易受到：
- 洪水冲刷
- 河岸侵蚀
2022年发生洪水时，其中一个填埋场的垃圾曾泄漏进入 Hooker River，并最终流入 Lake Pūkaki。
政府说明
环境部长 Grigg 表示：
“这些场地正变得越来越容易受到侵蚀和洪水影响。我们正在提前投资，防止这些历史污染风险进一步扩大，并保护社区与水体安全。”
她指出，项目资金用于：
- 安全挖掘废弃物
- 将垃圾运送至合规许可处理设施进行处置
保护部长 Tama Potaka 表示：
“这是一个生态高度敏感的流域，如果不进行干预，废弃物将持续进入河流，影响国家公园的水质、生态系统和自然价值。”
他补充说，该工程是 Department of Conservation 持续处理“历史遗留污染问题”的一部分。
资金来源与执行
该项目资金来自：
- Department of Conservation：166万纽元
- Ministry for the Environment：166万纽元
同时，该项目也获得了 Environment Canterbury 的支持，并申请了“受污染场地与脆弱填埋场基金（CSVLF）”。
时间线
- 2025年中：项目申请与准备
- 2026年4月：工程开工
- 2026年6月4日：工程完成
简要解读
这类项目虽然规模不大，但具有几个关键意义：
- 处理历史遗留环境污染
- 降低极端天气下的二次污染风险
- 保护国家公园水系生态
- 强化旅游与自然保护区的长期可持续性
本质上，这是新西兰在“旧基础设施环境债务”上的一次系统性修复行动，尤其是在气候变化导致极端降雨更频繁的背景下，类似工程预计会逐步增加。
A remediation project to clean up two former landfill sites in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park has been completed this week, Environment Minister Nicola Grigg and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka announced today.
The $3.32 million remediation project removed about 2500 cubic metres of waste from the sites that had been used as landfills between 1950 and 1980, around 3km from Aoraki/Mount Cook Village.
The Department of Conservation and the Ministry for the Environment each contributed $1.66 million to the project. During flooding in 2022, waste from one of the landfills spilled into the Hooker River, which flows into Lake Pūkaki.
“These sites had become increasingly vulnerable to erosion and flooding. We’re investing in getting ahead of those risks, and protecting communities and waterways from historic contamination,” Ms Grigg says.
“Funding this work allowed for waste material to be excavated and disposed of safely at a licensed facility.”
“This is an environmentally sensitive catchment and without intervention, waste would continue to erode into the river and impact the park’s water quality, ecosystems and natural values,” Mr Potaka says.
“This work continues DOC’s investment to address increasingly at-risk legacy landfills and other contaminated sites across the country.”
DOC applied to the Ministry for the Environment’s Contaminated Sites and Vulnerable Landfills Fund (CSVLF), with support from Environment Canterbury, in mid-2025.
Work on the landfills got underway in April 2026 and was completed 4 June.
