[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Old Australian ranges

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buried bomb risk worsened by bushfires: councillor

Christine Kellett
Brisbane Times (Australia)
October 1, 2009

Nearly 40,000 blocks of land across Brisbane and Ipswich are 
contaminated by World War Two explosives still buried underground.

Updated unexploded ordnance (UXO) data made available by the 
Commonwealth Government identifies 307 areas across Queensland affected 
by unexploded military ammunition, including artillery, mortars, 
grenades and aircraft practice bombs. Seventy-three of those areas are 
considered "substantially" affected, however the possibility of harm is 
considered low.

A high concentration of ammunition in Ipswich is a hangover from the use 
of Redbank as a major Australian and US military base in World War Two.

Moreton Bay and parts of far north Queensland also have high levels of 
buried UXO.

In Brisbane, the Department of Defence estimates 22,000 parcels of land 
across six separate site are contaminated by unexploded ammunition.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/buried-bomb-risk-worsened-by-bushfires-councillor-20091001-gd9e.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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