The chair of the West Coast Regional Council says a contentious dump near Greymouth's water treatment plant can't be automatically shut down.
On Monday, the Grey District Council issued a call for the regional council to revoke all the consents for the Taylorville Resource Park in Coal Creek, near Greymouth, after an EPA investigation found the discharge of some contaminated water.
Regional council chair Peter Haddock says the EPA has given the dump three months to correct its water storage operation, and the council needs to follow due process.
Haddock spoke to Charlotte Cook.
