Unlawful dumping has been pinned because the doubtless supply of confirmed or suspected asbestos contamination at seven Melbourne parks, as an identical however apparently far-wider unfold subject in Sydney continues to be being investigated for felony wrongdoing.
On Sunday, Environmental Safety Authority Victoria employees checked parks and reserves throughout Altona, Altona North, Pascoe Vale South, North Coburg and Spotswood.
“EPA investigations are displaying a lot of the fabric discovered at these websites could also be a results of unlawful dumping,” it says in an replace from the authority posted on Sunday.
Hobsons Bay Metropolis Council, which stretches kind the western facet of the Yarra River mouth alongside the coastal western suburbs, was issued with two remedial notices on Sunday by the environmental authority.
The notices order the council to proactively examine all parks and gardens which have been mulched previously 18 months, fee a hygienist and supply additional data to the authority.
The environmental authority has requested the council’s studies relationship again to July 2021.
This outbreak and thorough examination was sparked when a guardian discovered contaminated constructing supplies in mulch at a playground in Spotswood.
A contaminated “recycled product round mature tree planting” was the reason for two extra parks being fenced off within the Hobsons Bay council space.
Updates for numerous areas searched this weekend are:
- Kororoit Creek Path, Altona North: No suspected asbestos
- PA Burns Reserve canine park, Altona: Potential asbestos being examined, mulch unfold on high of constructing waste
- GJ Hosken Reserve, off-lead canine park, Altona North: Suspected asbestos being examined
- Crofts Reserve, Altona North: Suspected asbestos being examined
- Shore Reserve, Pascoe Vale South: Suspected asbestos being examined
- Hosken Reserve, North Coburg: Asbestos present in historic buried materials at energetic building web site
- PJ Lynch Reserve, Altona North: Confirmed bonded asbestos, doubtless from unlawful dumping
- Donald McLean Reserve, Spotswood: Bonded asbestos discovered
“To date, the fabric confirmed as asbestos containing materials is bonded asbestos, not the extra harmful friable asbestos,” the environmental authority says.
“It isn’t uncommon for folks to search out items of bonded asbestos of their properties or locally … As a precaution, don’t choose it up or deal with it.”
Bonded asbestos has been discovered at 18 parks and reserves in Sydney, with two confirmed websites with the extra harmful friable asbestos.
The Sydney contaminants have been found when the NSW EPA found the mulch suppliers working with councils had obtained contaminated recycled mulch.
“The EPA’s preliminary part of provide chains tracing is full, whereas its felony investigation continues,” the NSW authority mentioned final week.
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