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American town’s beach inundated with sand mixed with bombs.

One of the engineering part of the American army closed the city beach sand Surf City, which previously buried end-of-life ammunition. The proposal to divide the military costs of cleaning the beach with the city has prompted outrage from local authorities, Surf City is already not able millions of dollars because of the outflow of tourists. Mayor Leonard Connors said that if the military wants to receive money from the city to correct its own mistakes, it is a big mistake. Representative military engineers Haalid Uolls in response, explained that his colleagues turned to the city for a mere formality, because the protocol had to be met. Usually this kind of projects we have funded jointly. ” As a result, military engineers worked to remove ammunition from brought to the beach sand. In the course of his treatment was found over a hundred thousand chetyrehdyuymovyh shells from the First World War. Despite the fact that the bulk of the work has been completed, and the rules of conduct on the beach included a paragraph prohibiting dig deep pits more than 30 centimetres, the locals still found explosives there. Therefore, now on the beach Surf City, with rescuers standing army bomb-disposal officer. The military said that the ammunition nearly century-old can hardly designed, but are still going to close the beach in winter and again sieve sand brought there by heavy equipment and special engineering unit.

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