10-07-2020, 09:05 AM
(10-07-2020, 07:51 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(10-06-2020, 07:29 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I said "cheapest", not "cheap". The other options are restoration for a million dollars, or demolition for about a quarter million dollars.
Fair enough. I don’t actually mean to be Mr. Pedantic. The problem is that it is almost impossible to fence off a property really securely. People will break into just about anything. Somebody else suggested welding the door shut; I don’t think that would be enough to deter breakins.
The other issue is that if there is pollution on the site, you don’t really want it to just sit there until the structure decays enough to release it; the materials really should be cleaned up.
That's true, I think a plaque will actually help with that, I mean, it can at a minimum explain the contamination that is present.
That being said, I am of the opinion that if a good faith effort is made to seal off the property, that the property owner (us) should not be liable for someone who breaks in and gets injured.
As for the structure decaying away, I'm unsure what contaminants are present and in what quantities, at a certain low level, they could just be returned to nature. But remediation of some or all of those materials would be part of any plan anyway.