Contractor 6 Alpha Associates found three ‘anomalies’ over the two-week search, with initial assessments indicating they are indeed unexploded ordnance, the States said.
Home Affairs is now waiting for the final survey report, due in the next few weeks.
Ben Remfrey, the local bomb disposal expert who originally raised concerns about the danger posed by the suspected ordnance, said Home Affairs would consult the UK’s Ministry of Defence on the results and recommendations of the survey, with the MoD then making a decision on whether its intervention might be required.
However, Mr Remfrey said the MoD had previously stated in the past there was no appetite for military intervention in what was a commercial enterprise, and that a commercial company should be engaged for any site clearance.
He reiterated his calls for the area to be excavated, assessed and rendered safe in a ‘controlled’ manner with public safety ‘uppermost in mind’.
‘There will now be talk of leaving the bombs where they are, and citing numerous reasons why this should be the case – this would be wholly wrong and show further lack of accountability by Home Affairs or the States,’ he said.
‘The survey has been concluded, bombs identified and their exact locations plotted, we now need to finish the job and remove the threat to life, once and for all.’
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