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baldude69 t1_iwupqay wrote

Interesting, they mention bike lanes and public access to the lower Schuylkill banks. I wonder what this will look like and if it will connect to the SRT/Bartrams paths. It would be really cool to have a little park at the point, right where the Schuylkill meets the Delaware

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AbsentEmpire t1_iwvwcln wrote

The whole area is a super fund site, unless they build the park over a slab of concrete capping all that under it, probably don't want to be spending time there for a while.

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baldude69 t1_iwvx2gv wrote

Isn’t the extensive remediation they’re doing there supposed to address that? Sounds like they’re literally sucking toxins out of the soil

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AbsentEmpire t1_iwwoyjm wrote

It's certainly going to help, but people won't be able to live at the site for a long long time. There's concern that the contamination goes so deep it could contaminate the aquifer.

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baldude69 t1_iwyzbo7 wrote

Yea I read some about the stuff they were encountering back when they started working on this. Evidence that they had literally been dumping thousand and thousands of gallons of gasoline into the soil back in the 19th century when gasoline was just considered a waste byproduct

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donttouchthirdrail t1_iwvope7 wrote

It's mostly gonna be warehouses, with some biomedical labs. Not a place you'll wanna hang out.

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baldude69 t1_iwvwxfd wrote

Doesn’t mean they couldn’t put a couple small waterfront parks. From the article they suggest this will “boost public access to the Schuylkill”

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