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> Seattle turned a creosote saturated lakefront area into a city park. And then had to shut it down within a year, scrape all the topsoil off to a deeper depth
by vkou 3y ago
> Seattle turned a creosote saturated lakefront area into a city park. And then had to shut it down within a year, scrape all the topsoil off to a deeper depth and replace it.
You're missing the part where it has been reopened for decades.
Just, uh, don't dig or wade in the water.
- hinkley 3y agoI assume by “reopened” you mean closed and reopened repeatedly? Yeah I moved a while ago and didn’t hear the comedy of errors continues. Looks like they’re thinking of dredging an area of lake union twice the size of the park?
- vkou 3y agoThe park's been open for 40 years. It's entirely possible I'm wrong about this, and I missed an environmental closure, could you find a news article for it? Yes, there's definitely a comedy of errors when it comes to remediating the site. I believe that there's a 2027 dredging plan. As I understand it, the consensus is that the environmental danger largely lies in the buried waste poisoning the waterways, and the watertable, not picnic-goers. Am I wrong? Is the consensus wrong?