ORIGINAL: Georg Matthews
Are we really getting so desperate for flying sites that we will take land that nobody else wants because of health concerns ?
Yes.
Actually, we consider it to our advantage that our landfill site is closed to development, even as a county park, for at least 40 years. Our investment in developing it as a flying site has a known lifetime, which is more than can be said of many club sites. It's not without problems - there is settling that results in dips and cracks in the runway over a period of years, and we were shut down for a period of time when methane leaking from fissures in the clay cap reached levels deemed potentially hazardous. Still, it beats the constant threat facing many clubs of being run over by sprawling suburbia.
Abel