This is what is in the area
The survey is likely to confirm what British Gas discovered by accident: that many of the munitions meant for Beaufort’s Dyke never got there. Instead, they were dumped in shallow waters en route to the dyke by ships from Stranraer and Cumbria. Two seamen from Stranraer who sailed on dumping expeditions in the 1940s, John Balfour and Alfie Shingleston, have said that in poor weather, the ships discharged their cargoes no more than a few hundred metres off shore. “There is credible evidence that a significant amount of material never made it to the site,” says one scientist from the Marine Laboratory. He believes that munitions ended up in unauthorised dumps to the north and south of the dyke and possibly in the Solway Firth. “Out of sight, out of mind was the prime criterion at the time,” he says.
According to a letter sent by the MoD in June to researchers at the University of Liverpool, the MoD dispatched vast amounts of old weapons to Beaufort’s Dyke. The ministry dumped some 14,000 tons of 5-inch artillery rockets filled with poisonous phosgene gas in the trench between July and October 1945. Over the following three years, it consigned 135,000 tons of conventional munitions there, and every year “into the late 1950s” another 20,000 tons ended up in the dyke.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/mg14820042-200-the-ww2-bombs-dumped-off-western-scotland-washing-up-on-beaches/#ixzz6DZx5J0T1
www.newscientist.com/article/mg14820042-200-the-ww2-bombs-dumped-off-western-scotland-washing-up-on-beaches/
Still want a bridge?
Of course, the Liar-in-Chief will no doubt say that there's nothing at all harmful there...
