asbestos debris

Officials will not be able to determine what caused the pipe to break until after Monday, when all the asbestos debris has been removed.

The asbestos debris came from roofing sheets on an industrial building damaged by fire last year.

Following demolition and refurbishment work, asbestos debris can end up in waste disposal streams.

The sheet was broken during removal and the surrounding area was contaminated with asbestos debris.

Work will continue to remove asbestos debris from homes damaged by storms on the NSW south coast.

In the latest incident, an oval at Graceville State School has been temporarily closed after asbestos debris was found during classroom construction.

ASBESTOS debris has been found on the oval of a Brisbane school.

The clean-up of asbestos debris is continuing at the Malabar RSL in Sydney's east.

Graceville State School students and staff will have to wait until investigations are complete to learn whether asbestos debris found on the school oval has put them at risk.

One teacher said she found pupils kicking around blocks of asbestos they had discovered in a cupboard, and another said members of staff had been asked to sweep up asbestos debris.

A State Emergency Service (SES) spokeswoman police and the firefighters as well as SES workers will soon continue the removal of asbestos debris.

Asbestos debris was left on the ground for several days before being bagged up. Bags of asbestos were left in an insecure area for several days before being removed.

In the absence of visible damage or evidence of asbestos debris left from previous uncontrolled work, the concentrations of asbestos fibres in the air are likely to very low and around the realistic limits of detection using the currently available measurement methods.