An investigation is ongoing into the Tuesday afternoon discovery of a 1,000-pound World War II-era bomb in Hernando County. Sheriff's office deputies are clearing the scene on Helicopter near Flight Path drives at the Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport and Industrial Park, the agency posted on Facebook. The sheriff's office bomb team "completed its assessment and determined the ordnance to be inert." A team from MacDill Air Force will help dispose of the bomb. It's speculated that the found device could be a Mark 65 bomb. Deputies say they received a call before 3 p.m. from a construction company in the area working to build the foundation of a technical college, Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis said. The device is likely inert, however, it's so rusted that it is hard to tell if it is live ammunition. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hernandocounty/potential-wwii-bomb-uncovered-hernando-county/67-0c41d160-d3c1-4aee-ae0c-6c812dabedd9 ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►X: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay