[COM] Victoria Park Redevelopment

[stumpjumper]

I went for a ride around there yesterday and was informed that they are digging a large hole and filling it in again...

There is some contaminated soil being removed.

[Aidan]

I went for a ride around there yesterday and was informed that they are digging a large hole and filling it in again...

There is some contaminated soil being removed.

What contaminated the soil?

[Isiskii]

Clipsal 500.

I thought that'd be fairly obvious.

[stumpjumper]

What contaminated the soil?

The guy on the excavator said he didn't know. I tried ACC on that point but I got shunted around a bit and had to go. I'll keep at it though.

From the site of the digging, I wouldn't have thought it was the Clipsal race at fault.

[mattblack]

Our heritage parklands contaminated? SHOCK, HORROR !! Where the PPS when you need them, they should be digging if they feel like the gardians. Oh thats right, they like planting trees and shuffling paper, nothing too strenuous.

It probably is from the clipsal, too many people pissing out the back of the old grandstands.

[Waewick]

given it was a horse track for how many years?

I pretty confident most of us could at least have a rough guess at what the contamination is

[stumpjumper]

Torn up bettings tickets? Horse sh*t is hardly a contaminant.

[Waewick]

Torn up bettings tickets? Horse sh*t is hardly a contaminant.

err I'm thinking more of whole horses.....

I can't imagine they had the same issues in the early 1900's just digging a whole and putting dead horses in it as we do.


saying that, a signifcant amount of manure can contaminate the soil, it just needs to have the chance of getting into the underground water system and they will make you dig it up.

[Omicron]

I don't know. Centennial Park always looks nice, and that's full of dead things.

[Benski81]

Torn up bettings tickets? Horse sh*t is hardly a contaminant.

Speaking of horse s**t, I saw this documentary on foxtel the other day which dealt with exactly this topic. Turns out that the fungus which grows on the masticated grass a horse excretes out the back passage has these spores which shoot off at 20,000 g's. The fastest accelerating thing on the planet apparently.

To me that makes horse s**t something not to f**k with.

[mattblack]

Somebodies actually stood behind a horse an measured these things What an exciting life some people lead.

[stumpjumper]

...or follow.

[SRW]

Toxic soil found in Parklands
The Advertiser, 6 November 2010

TOXIC soil has been found in Victoria Park and Adelaide City Council began digging it up yesterday.

Hydrocarbons from 100-year-old street sweepings and asphalt were found in the soil and toxic sections will be removed to a depth of 20cm as a precaution.

It will cost $1m but Lord Mayor Michael Harbison said the soil wasn't overly dangerous.

``Children have been leaping over and playing in this soil for centuries,'' he said.

Mr Harbison said it was not the only area affected by old waste management practices.

``Wherever we dig in the Parklands these days we find contamination.''

A council spokesman said there was no risk to the public, as it had passed a State Health Department assessment.

[iTouch]

``Wherever we dig in the Parklands these days we find contamination.''

yer, one time when I was 6, me and my friend decided to dig a hole in the parklands with our new trucks we got for christmas and we found a barrel of nuclear waste. No big deal or anything.

The media is going to be all over this -_-

[monotonehell]

"It will cost $1m" Is the Advertiser rounding everything up to the next million these days?