Contractor stands accused of preventing dust with “the wrong kind of water”.
There was a time when local residents would have been grateful of any kind of dust suppression deployed on a demolition site. But, it seems, when you’re in the midst of a drought and there’s the potential for a legal suit, those days are now consigned to the history books.
The contractor responsible for the demolition of the famous Candlestick Park in California has, rightly, been dousing the dust with water. However, the region is in the midst of a drought and a hosepipe ban has been set in place. So now the locals are up in arms that the contractor is ignoring the hosepipe ban and squandering thousands of gallons of “drinking water” to prevent the inevitable dust cloud from the demolition works.
Water conservation advocates used words like “reprehensible” to describe the situation.
