WW2 British bomb found in Koblenz causes 45000 people evacuation

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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

It's virtually impossible man. Sometimes bombs get 15, 20 metres deep, there's no way of finding them. It's a sad testament of those dark years, but thinking about finding them all and neutralising them is too much of a prohibitive thing to do in terms of costs.

Originally Posted by Bewolf

That's indeed a problem. Ground in Germany and especially rivers are so full of metal that any focused search for bombs is an excercise in futility. You just have to go by what is obvious.

Yes you have to go by what is obvious, therefore the Aerial Photos supplied by the USA and the UK are an important factor for searching unexploded Bombs.
Otherwise in every Major Town namely Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Augsburg and of Course the Ruhrgebiet and many more, when ever you dig a hole a search has to be Performed specially in those Areas where Ground Combat also took place.
I did some research, why there wasnt a search performed at the A3, there was a Search performed in 1955(!) and therefore a new search was considered as waste of time(!)
I call such behavior a criminal act caused by laziness along with stupidity!
I see it here in Augsburg from first hand, every time when they tear down a building and build a new one or build a new one on vacant land, a search is performed.

Before i came to Augsburg i lived in Wolfratshausen a tiny City with 17000 People south of Munich, even there they found a few unexploded 500 lbs, cause sometimes when the Target couldnt be reached due to battle damage the Bombers dumped their payload right there where they flew.

But there is a much bigger danger not on Land but in the North Sea, the Allies sunk Ships with Tousands of tons german Ammo after the war, including Yperite (aka Mustard Gas), Sarin and Tabun Gas Grenades and Bombs, this is an imminent Danger to all Nations around the North Sea specially Denmark, Norway, the UK's East Coast and Germany.