PA Burns Reserve, a dog park in Altona North, is the latest park to have contaminated mulch that is being tested for asbestos.
Investigators are testing for potential asbestos at another park in Melbourne, after the cancer-causing material was discovered in mulch at three parks in Altona North and one reserve in Spotswood last week.
“New mulch has been spread around the toilet blocks and is contaminated with building waste,” the EPA said. “Hobsons Bay City Council has not provided information to EPA about the source of the mulch at this time EPA officers took six samples of potential asbestos for prioritised testing.” The agency believes some of the asbestos has been illegally dumped, but said the mulch at Hosken Reserve was thought to have been supplied in 2017, though Hobsons Bay City Council had not yet confirmed who the supplier was as it continued to search its records.Expert Jeff Angel, director of the Total Environment Centre, said the problem of asbestos in mulch was “unlikely to be just a few bad apples” in the supply chain. “This is a systemic problem for Australia,” he said.
Angel warned all asbestos degraded and so posed dangers. “The public are really sensitive to this,” he said, backing calls from the Victorian Liberals for a taskforce and more widespread pre-emptive testing at public spaces around the state.
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