Toxic tip: Homeowners exposed to 'unacceptable' cancer, explosion risk

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Melbourne residents living above a former toxic waste site were exposed to an 'unacceptable' cancer risk and a 'high risk' of explosions, according to documents handed in the past week to people living near the old tip

were exposed to an "unacceptable" cancer risk and a "high risk" of explosions, according to documents handed in the past week to people living near the old tipNeither the Brimbank City Council nor the Environment Protection Authority could explain on Friday why residents were not warned of the risks for seven years after a damning 2013 report about the contamination.

"Continued monitoring at the location is recommended to confirm that risk remains low and acceptable to residents over time," the document reads. Ms Hodgers recently subdivided the land of her parents' Denton Avenue family home and built two townhouses, taking on a 30-year mortgage with her husband Arron Reid.

 

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CORRECTION: St Alban's residents, NOT 'Melbourne residents'. Getting the 'what, who, where & why' basics of journalism are in sad decline.

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