A Fox Glacier local says the clean up of the area's rubbish strewn river is being forgotten.
A deluge washed out a closed landfill near Fox Glacier, leaving old garbage snagged on logs or buried under rocks and silt, along the riverbed.
Fox Glacier guide Kelsey Porter says more rubbish has been exposed following a recent rainfall, and the momentum from last year's clean up has been lost.
But the Westland District Council is defending it's river monitoring, and say cleaning the riverbed isn't a practical solution.
Anan Zaki reports.
