Bloomberg reports construction crews are searching the 500-acre London 2012 Olympic Games’ site for bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe during World War 2 that failed to explode. This exercise is adding time and money to the project whose costs have reportedly more than tripled.
About 10 per cent of the 19,000 bombs set off during the war didn’t explode and remain buried around the city, according to the Imperial War Museum.
As builders prepare for the Olympics there are cranes dotting the landscape across East End boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham clearing the land of vacant factories and warehouses that served London’s now-defunct Thames Rive Docks, reports Bloomberg.
The Olympic Development Authority (ODA), in charge of construction, has found one grenade so far. The authority is taking the risk of unexploded bombs “very seriously” and has plans to deal with them said Simon Wright, the ODA’s director for infrastructure.
