Then there is the noise of bombs and shells, and dangers from unexploded ordnance.
When pressed he said it was a piece of unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War.
Military property contains a lot of unexploded ordnance and polluted groundwater, two of the trickiest types of contamination.
It would pay for locating, disarming and removing mines and other unexploded ordnance in the U.S. sector of Kuwait.
In Syria, every time the government has used cluster munitions and other explosive weapons, a lethal legacy of unexploded ordnance is created.
The abandoned, unexploded ordnance, combined with oil from leaks or deliberately flooded trenches, has left a hazardous environment for rehabilitation workers to operate in.
The quarry cannot be dredged to clean it because during WWII, the Germans who occupied the island used it as an armaments dump and tonnes of unexploded ordnance remain.
Proposals to build homes at Lodge Hill, which Medway said is believed to have unexploded ordnance, have been in the pipeline since the mid-1990s and outline plans have been submitted.
Places like Laos, whose territory is still littered with munitions from the hot wars in Indochina, will have difficulty meeting the five-year target for clearing up unexploded ordnance, let alone finding money to pay for it.
On arriving in Phonsavan, head to the UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Visitor Information Centre (in the centre of Phonsavan, opposite Craters restaurant) and learn about Laos' plight with unexploded bombs that were dropped during the Vietnam War.
Military sources also said officials are concerned that -- in addition to booby-trapped minefields -- about 3, 000 unexploded NATO ordnance in Kosovo may pose a danger to peacekeepers and refugees once they begin to enter the war-torn province.
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