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that depends on whats below
Nuclear waste from some of the rumours ive heard!
that depends on whats below
Yeah good luck with that especially in London and so close to the Thames. Likewise all the foundations have already been laid as it is now, you simply can’t dig down 10 metres let alone 25 without pretty much having to rebuild the entire thing.
Nuclear waste from some of the rumours ive heard!
I think you’ll find most of the sewerage is on the pitch!that depends on whats below, but if viable, and won't hit the sewage then I suppose its possible. would still take some doing though as aren't the 1st 2 or 3 rows are the retractable?
Same fing innit.....you say potatoes, i say tomatoesSure you are not confusing that with the fact that trains carrying nuclear waste go past the stadium and that chelsea's proposal was to build a tunnel with part of the stadium above it?
Hypothetically Chelse a
It’s nit impossible. Dig down, drip the pitch by 10-25m and the track is replaced by new seating
They can't dig down without huge costs as the land is contaminated and would require special disposal. @davidmatzdorf might know more about this
A lot of WW2 rubble was dumped out on the wastelands in the vicinity of Hackney and Leyton Marshes.
I thought it was more oil/ chemical pollutants but my memory is terrible
The land was indeed contaminated. That's one of the main reasons why the £500m+ headline cost of the OS was a misunderstanding. It included the remediation of the whole site.
There are two usual ways to deal with contaminated land. You can do one or the other or both, depending on the severity and nature of the contamination, the depth to which the ground is compromised and the use to which the land is intended to be put.
You can either remove and replace the contaminated soil, taking the old soil to a specialist hazardous waste tip, or you can cap it with a suitable membrane that will prevent the contaminants from escaping. Often you do both: cart away 0.5m or 1.0m of soil, lay down a capping membrane and then import replacement soil. I don't know the details at the OS, but the contamination was severe, so I'd expect them to have done both.
In theory: if they only reduced level to remove all the contaminated soil, then they could excavate and lower the pitch if that were otherwise feasible (which I doubt); if they capped it, then they can't reduce level at all without redoing all the containment measures, which would be ££££; if they did both, they could reduce level down to the cap and no further.
It's not a practical idea.
The Sunday Express has obtained documents which reveal London 2012 chiefs have covered up land that is possibly contaminated with asbestos and radioactive materials with a huge, bright orange sheet.
Spanning more than 600 acres —equivalent to some 400 football pitches--it is buried at a depth of 31ins to protect the health and safety of future builders and homeowners.
Even after the Games have finished, the site will still be classified as brownfield, with the onus on future developers to fund extra decontamination work, outside the giant Olympics budget.
The risks are likely to concern anyone considering living on the regenerated Olympic Park after 2012 and have major implications for recouping money from land sales.
Last night, John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said: “If a future developer is required to bear extra costs for decontamination, that will reduce the value of the land and that’s something of concern.”
Games organisers set aside a budget of £364million to remediate what they claimed was one of Europe’s most heavily contaminated sites, which had been home for a century to landfill tips and heavy industrial use, including scrap cars and batteries and a mini test nuclear reactor.
2nd yellow. First one was fair but the second one he was chasing Hernandez towards goal, he breathed on him and he fell over. Off@TheChosenOne What was the red card for? i missed it.