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      Home > News > National > Lower South Island

    Emergency services are cleaning up human waste spilled out of a rolled truckload of portaloos on State Highway 1, north of Timaru - but it's not as bad as first announced

    Emergency services are cleaning up human waste spilled out of a rolled truckload of portaloos on State Highway 1, north of Timaru - but it's not as bad as first announced


    Fire and Emergency says about 500 litres of excrement leaked across the highway, near Arundel Belfield Road, closing one lane.

    It was earlier reported to be about three thousand litres.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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     24 Jan: Southland rider Josh Burnett has banked his third career win in cycling's Tour of Southland, finishing safely in the peloton to take the overall title by 10 seconds from Cambridge's Matthew Wilson
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     23 Jan: Police want to hear from anyone who may have seen a 62-year-old man reported missing from the Invercargill area - last seen two weeks ago
     22 Jan: Dan Morton has held off a storming peloton to win stage five of cycling's Tour of Southland
     22 Jan: Race leader Josh Burnett is using cycling's Tour of Southland as a catalyst for his season abroad
     22 Jan: Luck is on the side of an Otago Powerball player - after a 5.3 million dollar win last night
     21 Jan: Josh Burnett has made a late charge to claim a stage four win on cycling's Tour of Southland
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