Out running off road this morning through a section that is notoriously muddy. There is a section where you climb over a style that can be knee deep in mud in the winter. I'm not sure it's the land owners fault through poor drainage as the whole area is really bad.
Anyway, I was really pleased when I got to the particularly bad bit as the landowner has clearly done some work ready for the winter and put down a couple of tonnes of hardcore to "soak up" the mud. Access to the area is really hard so it must have been tricky to do. The only snag is, 90% of the hardcore is broken up bits of asbestos concrete roofing sheets - nicely crushing into handy skimming stone sized pieces . I'm assuming this would not be considered best practice!
Does anyone who actually knows about asbestos (not just knows it's bad news when interfered with, which is about the limit of my knowledge) care to comment of the health risk of this. I can't imagine this is what you should do with an asbestos roof, but it's in an open air spot somewhere you are not going to sit around snorting the stuff up. Also, if it should be sorted and you don't know the who the landowner is (miles from next farm building so wouldn't have a clue) who do you inform of this sort of stuff - I'm assuming the district council, but which dept?
I'm sure there are loads of things I do everyday that are far more dangerous, but somehow it does not feel right to be running over asbestos! My old man was in the Navy and tells of visiting men working on submarines in dock, angle grinding their way through asbestos stuffed bulkheads with their hair white with the stuff and using a hanky for a mask!
