Council looks at options for green space near new long-term care facility
Meadow Lake City Council are grappling with how to deal with use of a vacant parcel of land near the site of the planned long-term care facility set to break ground later this year.
A spokesperson at city hall said the vacant site belonged to a former Esso gas station which stopped operating sometime in the mid 1980s.
City Manager Diana Burton told meadowlakeNOW, councillors are considering using the site as green space abutting the facility.
“The expectation is that there will be contamination from old an gas station, so basically you can’t do anything with the site, unless that gets remediated,” Burton said. ”Without remediating, we could turn it into green space because we won’t have to dig down into soil and the environmental contamination wouldn’t be disrupted.”