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Thursday 19th January 2006

BOMBS AWAY - BACTEC appear in Ground Engineering Magazine

Second World War bombs detected and rendered safe during a major Cambridgeshire site investigation programme averted a potential disaster.

The results of the investigation on the site of the new town of Northstowe made for some serious reading. The 425ha area in Cambridgeshaire, which will provide 8,ooo homes includes the Defence Estates owned Oakington Barracks, which was an active Second World War airfield before being transferred to the Army and used as a training ground.

Having submitted an outline planning application for the new town in July 2005, town developer Gallagher Estates began a three month site investigation programme in the latter part of 2005.

And it was at an early stage that project consutant WSP Environmental and Gallagher identified the potential threat from unexploded devices as a result of the site's colourful history and commissioned a desktop threat assessment from ordnance detection company Bactec International...

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