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FRIDAY 23 MAY 2014
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No! No! No! Dorcas Mhungu & Otis Finck Walvis Bay residents have objected to the proposed establishment of a temporary Dangerous Goods Safe Storage Facility on the outskirts of Narraville.
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A public consultative meeting, convened to provide information on the envisaged project and to identify concerns that should be considered before its implementation, was held on Tuesday at the Narraville Clubhouse. Most of the people who attended the meeting are residents of Narraville. The community members resolved to oppose the construction of the facility by Native Holdings. Concerned members again met at the Narraville Clubhouse yesterday and drew up a petition that will be circulated to all Walvis Bay residents. Mr Stan Bouman invited all Walvis Bay residents to sign and pointed out that the effects of dangerous substances will adversely affect the whole town and not only residents of Narraville. “We do not know where dangerous consignments are being kept or
stored in Walvis Bay currently,” he said. The residents informed Alan Jenneker from EnviroSolutions, the Health, Safety & Environmental Consultant, tasked with conducting the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on behalf of Native Holdings, that they will draw up a petition against the establishment of the envisioned facility to be situated at the former Communication Bunker on state owned land 800m east of the township. They also made it clear from the onset that they were not in favour of the idea and that the proposed facility would create a new hazard because the hazardous material will be ferried in trucks by road from the harbour to the facility. “Would you people be prepared to buy a house and live in Narraville after the establishment of such a
facility and have you taken the development of Narraville into consideration when you came up with the idea of the facility?” they questioned. According to the residents the bunker represented a grim reminder of the past and the hazard waste storage facility resembles a ticking time bomb. Another resident pointed out that the land swap was nearly completed and wanted to know why Native Holdings wanted to invest a considerable amount of money to refurbish the bunker, which was situated below sea level with walls which, over the years, have corroded. Jolande Murange, an Environmental Scientist at Namwater pointed out that the bunker was located 4.7 km from the Namwater supply pipeline and 15.5 km from the Swart bank B area boreholes.
Alan Jenneker from EnviroSolutions She said the bunker would not pose a problem to known ground water resources if managed properly. “If an accident, explosion
or a radioactive leak occurs, the infrastructure as well as the ground water resources could be at risk. At this point in time it is
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Plofstowwe by rommel stortingsterrein gevind Marshallino Beukes
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Road show coming
Kort nadat die ontploffing van ‘n geweer-granaat in Ocean View, Swakopmund, skokgolwe deur die vakansiedorp se gemeenskap gestuur het, het die polisie op ‘n soortgelyke granaat beslag gelê.
Volgens die stasiebevelvoerder van Mondesa, inspekteur Nghaamwa, het ‘n hawelose persoon die granaat by die rommelstortingsterrein buite Swakopmund ontdek en dit tot by ‘n shebeen in Mondesa geneem, min Page 13 wetende wat dit is. Die
man was blykbaar besig om die granaat te probeer oopkap, ten einde dit as skrootmetaal te verkwansel. Gelukkig vir hom het een van die werknemers van die shebeen die gekap gehoor en ondersoek ingestel, waarna sy hom geskok
gewaarsku het om die toestel net so te laat staan. Die polisie is ontbied en plofstof deskundiges het op die granaat beslag gelê. Inspekteur Nghaama noem dat hierdie persoon gelukkig was om met sy lewe daarvan af te kom en waarsku die
publiek om nie met onbekende plofbare voorwerpe te peuter nie. Hy raai aan dat die polisie onmiddellik gekontak moet word, sou iemand op so iets afkom. Die granaat is die Donderdag, na die naweek van die ontploffing, gevind en dit dui daarop
'n Soortgelyke granaat soos die een wat onlangs in Swakopmund ontplof het dat persone wat soortgelyke plofstowwe in hul besit het, daarvan ontslae wil raak. Nghaamwa waarsku ook diegene wat oor gevaarlike plofstowwe of wapens beskik om dit onmiddellik aan die naaste polisiekantoor te oorhandig.
Hy gaan vandag ‘n byeenkoms beroep met persone wat daagliks by die stortingsterrein rondkrap vir afval voedsel of ander dergelike items, ten einde hulle streng te waarsku teen gevaarlike plofstowwe, wat dalk daar mag beland.