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Australian neighbourhood risks exploding, international experts called in
INTERNATIONAL experts have been called in to help authorities investigate leaking explosive methane gas at a Melbourne housing estate."Yecccchhhhh! What've you been feeding that cow?" Environmental Protection Authority executive director of regional services, Bruce Dawson, said experts had been engaged from the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Italy due to the unique nature of the emergency. "This is a unique in Australia, we don't have any other situation like this," he said. "The scale of the issue requires that we get the best advice possible ensuring the council makes the right investment in fixing this problem." Residents at Brookland Greens estate, in Cranbourne, have been advised a sealed tip next to the estate is leaching methane gas at levels high enough to cause explosions. They have been told their safest option is to move and have been warned methane levels may not be safe for a year. Mr Dawson expected the panel of experts would be able to come back to it with possible solutions within two weeks. However, he cautioned that it would probably take a lot longer to eliminate the problem. "We'd be delighted if this work identified a strategy that was able to give effect to a quick solution, but realistically elimination of that gas moving into the estate is probably going to take at least 12 months," he said. Posted by: Oztralian 2008-09-13 |
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