> 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.
I 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?
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?
You're missing the part where it has been reopened for decades.
Just, uh, don't dig or wade in the water.