Letter: Ruling may allow city to condemn Lamb State Park
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005 | 9:01 a.m.
The state of Nevada continues, as it has for the past several years, to reduce its staff at Floyd Lamb State Park. The park is now on life support and waiting for the city of Las Vegas to take over and perhaps pull the plug.
Walking through the park recently, I noticed an awful lot of shotgun BBs lying on the ground among what seemed to be Bear Poppies. In some places the shot was so thick that you could not see the earth below. I had thought for years now all gun ammunition was required to use only steel projectiles but this shot had no rust; perhaps it is an alloy.
While the skeet-shooting range in the park is required to do a semi-annual range cleanup, just how much lead over years has leached into this soil and even the groundwater? If this is a problem, then will the Environmental Protection Agency require the city to pay for any cleanup? Given the newly expanded powers of eminent domain bestowed upon government by the Supreme Court, could the city of Las Vegas eventually condemn a former 620-acre state park for a "better and higher" use? If so who gets the money from the land sale -- the city, its taxpayers or the state?
RICHARD RYCHTARIK
archive
- Most Read
- Discussed
- Most E-mailed
- Metro admits to improper release of criminal history data
- Locomotives win inaugural UFL championship
- Wonder drug for men flops, suggestive ad campaign coming under scrutiny
- Was a foiled bank heist a cry for help?
- If Palin’s book is so bad, then why is it a best-seller?
- Q&A: MMA fighter and Playboy model Latasha Marzolla
- CityCenter: One man’s concept of a real city
- UNLV recalls last year’s close shave at Louisville
- Metro corrections officer remembered for his love of family
- Live game blog: Bellfield, UNLV come through late, upset No. 16 Louisville
Blogs
The Kats Report
Could a savior of shuttered Las Vegas Art Museum be ... Peter Max? (6 Comments)
For Paul Stanley and KISS, rock and roll is not over (6 Comments)
Twenty years ago today, Human Nature took root on the farm (1 Comment)
Robin Leach's Las Vegas Celebrity Watch
Photo Gallery: Donny Osmond’s triumphant return to the Flamingo
The Kats Report
'DWTS' champ Donny Osmond still deft afoot in return to Flamingo (8 Comments)
Politics: The Early Line
Meeting of GOP governors draws challengers, not Gibbons (5 Comments)
Politics: Ralston's Flash
Oscar loves forcing developers to sign labor peace agreements, Culinary loves the city's downtown plans and all is forgiven (10 Comments)
Calendar »
- 29 Sun
- 30 Mon
- 1 Tue
- 2 Wed
- 3 Thu
-
Tahoe Takeover at The Bank
The Bank | 10 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
-
Playboy Club model search
Playboy Club | 10 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
-
Queen of Queens at Revolution Lounge
Beatles Revolution Lounge | 10 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
-
Zowie Bowie's Vintage Vegas Show at Monte Carlo
Lance Burton Theater
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
Technorati









