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Asbestos Located on Vacant Mersey St Site St AlbansThe Voice of our NewsNeighbourhood February/March 2015 Vol 221, No 13, Issue 23 Asbestos located on Asbestos petition by Belinda Carter A petition to extend ACC coverage vacant Mersey St site to those who have been exposed to asbestos in their homes has been started online. Isobel Baxter started the petition on www.change.org just before Christmas. If you want to sign it the easiest way to reach it is through a Facebook page called Christchurch Asbestos Stories. Its subtitle: “There is no safe level of exposure to asbestos.” The petition calls for ACC to extend asbestos cover to homeowners (and families) exposed to “friable asbestos”, as a result of contractors failing to identify and test for asbestos This Mersey St property is under investigation because asbestos was found or using unsafe testing or removal on the site. methods, and to the families of those by Belinda Carter currently is ensuring that the small who have been working with asbestos Rubbish dumped on a property in amount of asbestos onsite is removed products and coming home with it Mersey St close to Berwick St has safely and correctly. This is being on their clothes. They would need to rattled some neighbours and resulted done in conjunction with the site’s prove that the exposure led to one of in at least one complaint through owner. We can’t comment further the asbestos diseases. Trouble is the ECan’s pollution hot line. The property on any enforcement action until the onset of the disease can be 20 or more is currently under investigation to investigation is complete.” years later. ensure all asbestos is removed safely. Although James Tricker was unable The petition also calls for better Residents are concerned about to comment further, Ecan’s website documentation, so asbestos findings possible asbestos contamination in lists a number of actions it can take, are recorded on a register and copies the materials. They say the materials, ranging from letters to prosecution. are given to the homeowner and to possibly from a demolition elsewhere, Tracey Weston, Head of Regulatory Worksafe. were dumped on the empty site on Compliance with CCC says that if the One of the petition signers, Sarah more than one occasion. Council is able to identify the origin Lawrence—who used to live in a ECan’s project manager for of rubbish or the person responsible 100 year old house in Manchester earthquake waste James Tricker for illegal dumping, they will make St, but demolished a while after the says that the Mersey site is being contact with that individual, educate quakes—said she signed the petition investigated by the Waste and them of their responsibilities to collect because of her concerns about the Environmental Management the items and dispose of them to an cavalier approach the government Team (WEMT), a joint project run approved site. “If you witness illegal and recovery agencies seemed to by Environment Canterbury in dumping in the act you should contact have towards Christchurch citizens. association with the Christchurch City the Council.” Instead of insisting on a tough regime Council, CERA and two neighbouring Ecan’s 24 hour pollution hotline to ensure the safety of residents, in the district councils. number is 0800 76 55 88. early days they tended to waive rules “The top It is understood that when the and requirements for demolitions. priority for this site site has been properly cleaned, “And here they [the government] z townhouses will be built. continued on page 3 The St Albans News — distributed free to 7000 households www.stalbans.gen.nz Published by St Albans Residents Association Page 2 St Albans News February/March 2015 My piece of mind by Maria Hayward The Canterbury District Health Board had three Being given the opportunity to write on the subject of unfinished projects at Hillmorton from the collapse of the series of Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath, Mainzeal in 2013. The patients and staff had to wait some it is hard for me to choose between a personal point of time for the completion owing to Mainzeal going into view or a professional one. There is some crossover. liquidation. I got a job as a mental health peer support worker for Evidence of the ongoing struggles of some of Mental Health Advocacy and Peer Support (MHAPS) Canterbury’s population has finally been acknowledged only two months before the September 2010 earthquake. with the Police releasing their figures about suicide I spent four years supporting people with mental health attempts for the year for the first time. Canterbury police issues in my office and at Hillmorton Hospital. In the end district commander Superintendent John Price, these I found it too hard to continue to support my clients when words quoted in The Press in January, said while many I was no longer in a fit state myself. people were not following through with suicide, it seemed The recovery has not gone as well as Canterbury people had…“got to a stage in their lives where they’re Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) projected. In saying ‘Please come and help’.” fact, I have been involved in courses and presentations by As someone with suicide prevention training and CERA, over the years, that have downplayed concerns that experience in the field, I find it is such a relief that the NGOs and community leaders have had about the psycho/ police are finally speaking out. According to a report on social recovery. Radio New Zealand and in The Press, in early January Australian psychologist Dr Rob Gordon, an expert on last year in the region there were 2877 suicide-related bushfire disasters and a regular visitor to Christchurch to calls to the police in the region—an increase of 55 percent advise the Authority (Cera) on its psycho/social strategies, compared to 2011. Suicide numbers stayed pretty much the says much of the city may only be at its halfway mark. same but the number of attempted suicides in Canterbury On the one hand, CERA will laud Rob Gordon when increased markedly from 1789 in 2011 to 2877 in 2015. he comes to visit, but conversely ignore social and mental These attempts could well be due to not coping with health issues for the rest of the year. It can take seven to 10 life after the quakes. Mental Health Advocacy and Peer years for people to work all the way to full recovery. Support support worker Vito Nonumalo said that around The CDHB has been asking for more funding for mental 20 per cent of cases dealt with by the NGO involved health for a couple of years, a fact well documented in The earthquake-related stress. Press. St Albans has a high percentage of TC3 properties and a “There appears to be an increasing disconnect between lot of multiple unit dwellings (MUD). Once EQC realised what is actually occurring with the Canterbury population that MUD was not a good acronym, this was changed and the application of a funding allocation model that was to MUB—multiple unit building. Those of us living in never designed to deal with major natural events and the these ‘MUD houses’ have had to wait years for any sort effects and impacts that this has on populations,” CDHB of resolution. We are put to the bottom of EQCs list—way chief executive David Meates wrote to the Ministry of too hard to face. z Health last year. In the first four years after the quakes, the ministry The opinions reflected in this article are those of the provided $70m of extra funding—just over 1 per cent of the author. CDHB’s annual budget. In the last year, the CDHB received the lowest funding increase available, at 1.5 per cent. Volunteer Positions available You are cordially invited to the 20th Birthday Party and AGM St Albans Strategy Project Manager: of Packe Street Park and Community Garden Inc. The project is to develop a recreational space on a on Sunday 28th February 4-6 pm St Albans waterway to connect St Albans with other at St. Albans Community Centre, 1047 Colombo Street. Christchurch suburbs. Anthony Wright (local resident botanist and director of the Canterbury Museum), StAN Advertising Coordinator: will be talking on the topic of his favourite community garden. Responsible for the advertising in the St Albans News. The AGM will be followed by afternoon tea with tasting table. Contact [email protected] for Activities will be provided for children during the AGM. further information. Please RSVP to 03-366-3844 or [email protected] St Albans News February/March 2016— Page 3 What’s the fuss about asbestos? by Belinda Carter Asbestos comes in three types: white, blue and brown. Many New Zealand homes built between 1940 and Most New Zealand asbestos is the white variety. It’s in lots 1990 contain asbestos materials (plus some older houses of things and can be combined with other materials and is renovated since the 1940s). With many houses damaged in difficult to detect with the eye. You can find it in 1950s era the quakes and requiring a repair or rebuild asbestos has vinyl floor tiles, stippled ceilings, water tanks, lagging for become a major issue. pipes, panelling in garages and lots more besides. Land According to the Ministry of Health website, www. can also be contaminated, so soil is often tested. Highly health.govt.nz, left undisturbed the asbestos causes no regarded as a fire retardant in its heyday, it can also be harm but once disturbs breaks down into tiny fibres that found in other items such as cars and it is still showing up can be breathed in and cause diseases that do not surface in imported items, even recently in children’s crayons.
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