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    Tim Altman
    Tim Altman shared a link in the group Safety and Environmental Sustainability in Underground Works

    So much of Melbourne West Gate Tunnel's excavated soil is polluted that, they cannot find a place to dump it.

    Nearly 800,000 cubic metres soil and rock is heavily contaminated with asbestos and PFAS...

    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/dirt-files-andrews-big-dig-unearth-more-toxic-soil-than-the-tips-can-handle-20191129-p53fex.html

    #Australia #WestGateTunnel #Pollution #worksafety

    Dirt files: Andrews' big dig unearth more toxic soil than the tips can handle

    www.theage.com.au

    Nearly 800,000 cubic metres of toxic soil and rock will be unearthed by the state’s major transport projects, but experts warn that there is nowhere to dump it all.

    • Alan Limbach
      By Alan Limbach

      I thought they would somehow clean the contaminated soil, instead of merely relocating.

    • Alan Limbach
      By Alan Limbach

      I thought they would somehow clean the contaminated soil, instead of merely relocating.

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