17/05/2023 Australia, Queensland
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A former works inspector involved in the development of Kawana Waters says he found about 100 pieces of unexploded ordnance in the area, and there could be more in the vicinity. Clive Plater, 69, worked on various projects there for more than four decades, overseeing earthmoving activities for much of that time. He discovered scores of unexploded ordnance (UXO), which were remnants of World War II live-fire training exercises, from about 1970 to 1995, in northern Caloundra and at Kawana, which is now a sprawling urban hub with about 40,000 residents. “The first one I found was when we started building roads in the Currimundi Heights area (Culla Culla Street), and the Army came up and took it away and I got my first lesson in how to tell which ones were dangerous,” he said. He said he and colleagues found UXO mainly in the Currimundi areas around Bilinga Street and north of the Currimundi school, along with Wurtulla and Wurtulla Beach estates. “We would find them and let the police know,” he said. “If they were dangerous, the Army would come up and either explode them on the spot or move them to somewhere safer to let them off.” Mr Plater said that in his early years there, workers would create fire breaks and then walk around to find UXO in the ash.“If there was a shower after the burn-off, they were easier to spot,” he said.“Some of them also turned up when trenches were dug, and many turned up when the topsoil was being re-spread after earthworks were completed. “I recall two UXO going off on their own after being unknowingly pushed up into a timber stack and burnt.”
Photo-Source: sunshinecoastnews.com.au
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