It's not as expensive as you think.I wonder if they know the cost of the environmental cleanup required to change the use of the land.
All of that lead has to be taken out of the ground
I was talking the the range master for Capitol City Clay's in Austin once. They had a company come out once and clean up the lead bb's on the skeet and trap ranges. He told us after all expenses the range received a check for about $95k. Last time I was up there he said it's getting close to time to do it again and the sporting clay ranges were about ready to be cleaned up.
I'm currently doing an estimate for Temple PD range. We have a quote from a firm to come in and clean out all the lead from the range for about $40k. They are also reconfiguring the berms on range by rotating it 90 degrees to a 150 yard range for about $100k. They plan on reusing all of the dirt.
There is salvage value in the lead. If the lead is just in the dirt and hasn't hit the water table what's the issue?