War Legacy
During dredging in 2000 to expand the harbour, a large amount of unexploded munitions was found at the bottom of the harbour so that the Worksafe demanded that dredging cease until the harbour was made safe again. It was consequently found that the ordnance had been spilt during loading of excess munitions to be disposed of at sea in 1947 and 1948 by the Australian Army and Navy. Tha Albany Port Authority took the Commonwealth government to court to pay for the clean-up of the munitions. The Commonwealth lost the case and were ordered to pay $5.25 million dollars for past and future clean-up costs and an additional $1 million for legal costs. Some of the ammunition that has been found included a 250 pound aerial bomb, 18 pound artillery shells and rifle ammunitions.
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