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Inspector had walk through effluent at troubled Queenstown plant
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Discharges from the Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant create extensive ponding beyond the plant's boundary in January last year. An investigator has described wading through a river of effluent in her gumboots in a dossier of evidence damning the state of a failing Queenstown wastewater treatment plant.