How bombs will be transported, blown up

ON SATURDAY, the WWII bombs will be loaded on four trucks of Dakay Construction to be transported to Toledo City.

Each truck will have at least three inches of sand to secure the position of the bombs during the more than hour-long ride.

The bombs will be covered with soil deep in the ground before the fuse of a booster explosive is lighted.

One bomb will be exploded first as a test to check the impact of the explosion.

Dakay Construction, which is developing the White Sand Beach project in the old Kawit Island, agreed to use their trucks so that their construction site would be cleared of the bombs.

Marcial Diaz, Carmen Copper Corp. (CCC) security director, said he would deploy security personnel on Saturday to make sure that none of the local farmers go near the explosion site.

Diaz, however, said that he was confident that the chosen site was secure enough because it was about 500 meters downhill and near the company’s waste water dam.

Media observers will have to stay at a hilltop “lookout point” of the Biga Pit.

Bordon proposed to have the explosion done at the mouth of the Biga Pit to contain bomb fragments but military personnel preferred an open space to ensure the safety of their personnel who would be tasked to light the time fuse of the explosives booster.

Ideally, people should be two to three kilometers away from the disposal site in Saturday’s operation, said the military.

Biga Pit was abandoned after the Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. ceased operations in 1994 is a favorite spot for the disposal of vintage bombs.