Costly asbestos clean up to start inside park
The clean up of an asbestos contamination at Merriwa Park will cost Wangaratta Council $196,000.
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A 250-square-metre area has been closed for over a year after asbestos was detected in soil samples.
The contamination was believed to have come from historic construction and demolition waste.
Infrastructure services director Alan Clark said work to “cap the contaminated area with a honeycomb-like geofabrics”, starting this month, would not spread asbestos dust outside the site boundaries.
