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The land was confiscated from the Maori people as they refused to take an oath to the crown.
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It had a 76 m high scoria cone, beside a 100 m wide crater, before they were quarried away. It was the site of a pā.Only a hole remains.
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Closure of community ancestral river, Oruarangi River, reduced to a creek after oxidation ponds which brought the smell of sewage and plague of midges after heavy rain or sun.
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Runway extended. Overhead noise, burials desecrated.
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About 90 Burial sites desecrated
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Environmental Court made the ruling and ended plan by Manukau District Council era called the Māngere Gateway Heritage project which would have protected Ihumatao.
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1000 litres of methyl violet industrial dye turning the creek purple, killing the life.
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SHA62 is planned to have 480 new houses built on land that may have burial sites underneath as well as Lava caves. Hand built stone walls may also be destroyed - part of heritage.
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Pania Newton is the spokesperson for SOUL which is a campaign group working to preserve the land and history in Ihumatao
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Despite communite opposition
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Land sold to Fletchers Residential
