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Nearly two months on from a sewage spill that completely destroyed their crops, Mahurangi oyster farmers are still waiting to see a full compensation package.
More than a thousand cubic metres of sewage overflowed from a Watercare pump station in late October contaminating thousands of oysters in the Mahurangi river and preventing the farmers from harvesting for nearly a month.
Watercare agreed to give a million dollars in compensation to 10 affected farmers, who split it between them.
The organisation also promised to provide a second payment before the end of the year.
But as that date creeps closer the farmers are still waiting and getting increasingly desperate.
It has been around two weeks since Tom Waters was able to reopen Matakana Oysters.
It means he ha
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