How our government works

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For well over 15 years a "sports park" AKA: Gun or shooting range was planned. It's for hunters, sport shooting, police training, hunters safety classes for families and kids....... just a safe place to go shooting.
It's location is near wilderness and 14 miles either direction from a city. The site is just off a two lane highway and next to a county garbage dump. AKA: disposal facility.
Here's what occurs when you want to build something in Oregon.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/education/hunter/ranges/tioga/Tioga_Sports_Park_Final_EA.pdf
The local sheriff and many other gun enthusiasts thought up this thing probably 20 years ago and found a location. From there, it requires approvals and studies which can take a decade to complete. Anyone wonder why a bridge across a creek costs $200 million and takes 10 years from proposal to the ground breaking cerimony?

 

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Correction........... It started 37 years ago.
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/design-emerges-for-gun-range/article_da75d66f-a97a-55e1-a9a4-74cffa602d2b.html

OK, that wasnt fair. The idea started 27 years ago.
One of the initila planners said:
While commissioners Kevin Stufflebean, Nikki Whitty and Main all approved the request, there was concern that if the county provides funds it would fall under prevailing wage rules.

It will take 90 days to get the DEQ permit. Once Tioga has that, Lovie said structural architects will start the next design phase. Lovie said ideally he would like to see the shooting park open by next year.

"That's wishful thinking," Lovie said.

(just a reminder, this is from a 2010 newspaper clipping. (next year as was mentioned meant 2011)

I don't believe they have broke ground yet.

 

[Ernesto]

A gun range here got sued for lead contamination by the land owner who leased it to the border patrol and other government agencies. :shooting:

Then a popular wildcat spot just outside of town got shutdown for extremely toxic amounts of lead which was leaching lead into the aquifer from streams. That cost a shitton of money to clear out tons of soil.

 

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I'm thinkin at a public gun range paid in part or most part by the federal, state and local governments, they might be able to install a rubber or concrete barrier under the ground where the bullets land and let a large portion of the toxic stuff flow into a large settling tank which could be monitored before it's allowed to out flow into one of those large man made grassy/wetland areas, before it's allowed to continue into a natural creek or wherever.
Designing a range from scratch ought to make containment s very feasible thing.

 

[Ernesto]

Its that lead thing again.