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Clean-up is due to start
Wednesday 9th July 2008, 11:50AM BST.
A £1.5 million project to clean up land in a Shropshire village contaminated with lead and arsenic will start on Monday.
The work, in Pontesbury, near Shrewsbury, is being carried out by VHE Construction and is expected to last for three months. It will involve ripping up eight gardens to get rid of the contaminated soil but residents will not be compensated.
A £1.3 million grant was secured from Defra but part of it stated gardens would not be put back to how they were originally.
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council is paying the remaining £200,000 for the work.
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