Define remediation
Dear Editor:
Re: ‘Deserve an explanation’, Oct. 8.
On reading Jacqueline Guagliardi’s excellent letter demanding “an explanation” followed by Dave Adsett’s recent praise for the autumn serenity of the Erin hills, what is required is a definition.
What is considered to be pit “remediation”? Is it a restoration to natural conditions? Is it “landscaping architecture” suitable to a small public golf course? Or “plantings” suitable to decorative gardens/parkland/outdoor cultural venues?
Where are the proposals for this present or future “remediation”?
None would require leveled ground, full of potentially toxic imported industrial fill, hauled through pristine countryside at the rate of one double-exhaust diesel truck every three minutes for approximately 20 years (as described, with approximately 250 trucks daily). Regular monitoring of which would be highly unlikely.
If so-called “remediation” has already been approved/achieved, the challenge is to work with what one already has to create something beautiful.
Bronwen Stanley-Jones,
Mount Forest