For 50 years a critical piece of Salt Lake City's watershed was used as a shooting range. Now taxpayers are on the hook for cleaning up the 12- acre site in Parleys Canyon.
Salt Lake City stuck with cleaning up Parleys Canyon shooting range run by private police association for 50 years.
Some of these sites in Utah are now undergoing costly cleanups at taxpayer expense where decades of gunfire have left soils saturated with lead on publicly owned properties. The costliest is taking place at a former shooting range in Parleys Canyon, sitting a half mile uphill from a reservoir that provides drinking water to Salt Lake City.
“We have been particularly concerned about the extent of lead contamination from the accumulated gunshot over the half century of use. Unfortunately, it appears that none of the gunshot was cleaned up over the 50 years of operation and much of the property is contaminated with lead,” she Mendenhall wrote in 2021 memo sharing the conclusions of an analysis of the site.
“Because we want to meet the human-health and environmental-impact goals associated with water resources and habitat,” Briefer said, “the recommendation was to excavate and stabilize [the soil] so that it’s ready for non-hazardous treatment and disposal rather than leaving it on site.”
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