Plans for lead?

I need to ask if the (Central Valley) school district that is planning to buy the Spokane Gun Club property to build new schools on has considered the possibility of major lead contamination on the property. Pure lead, not just slag or whatever like the old Bunker Hill site.

I shot at the Hayden Lake club for a couple years and noticed that the ground was tinted grey out there where the shot eventually falls to the ground. Upon further checking, that grey ended up being a fairly thick layer of lead shot pellets. A fella could scoop a bucket-full up and take it home, clean it up, and re-use it.

Now, I’m not trying to protest anything here. I just think the school district will have a major lead-contaminated piece of property to build the grounds on. If the gun club has never reclaimed all that shot, this place could be a Superfund site. Have y’all considered what it will take to clean all that lead up? Remember in Kellogg and surrounding areas, they stripped the ground down several inches when they realized it was heavily contaminated and the kids showed high levels of lead in their blood. Just sayin’…

Larry Wheat

Cheney