The Environmental Protection Authority has accepted Wingecarribee Shire Council’s proposed Asbestos Management Plan to remediate roads in the Shire which were found to contain suspected asbestos fragments last year. Following Council’s findings in 2012 that a number of roads had been treated with a material containing suspected asbestos fragments, a thorough investigation was undertaken by...
In the lead up to Asbestos Awareness Week, Wingecarribee Shire Council is reminding home owners and renovators of the risks of asbestos. “Asbestos was widely used in building materials up until the mid-1980s,” said Council’s Environmental Assessment Manager, Les Pawlak. “And even though the manufacture and use of asbestos was banned almost ten years ago,...
Wingecarribee Shire Council has today confirmed sections of a further 65 rural roads across the Shire may have been partly constructed with the same material found to contain an unknown amount of asbestos in four rural roads recently identified on the outskirts of Robertson. The secondary roads have been identified after Council conducted retrospective investigations...
Core soil samples taken from the four roads on the outskirts of Robertson found to contain an unknown amount of asbestos have all returned clear for the material. In total 29 core samples over 6.5 kilometres of road were taken and analysed on Yeola, Vandenbergh, Fountaindale and Lees Roads. All results were found to contain...
Asbestos consultants have given the air quality surrounding the roads on the outskirts of Robertson found to contain an unknown amount of asbestos the all clear. Test results taken this week from Yeola, Vandenbergh, Fountaindale and Lees Roads reported air monitoring results for the locations were below the lowest detectable level of 0.01 fibres/ml of...
