Battleford kids help plant trees at old landfill
Members of a Battleford service club hope future generations will be able to enjoy land that is currently unusable.
The Battleford Historic Lions were joined Wednesday, May 24 by a busload of students from Battleford Central School, planting trees at the town’s former landfill on the bank of the Battle River. The trees will help reclaim the land for future use as a park.
Club president Marie Millenthorpe explained the trees will consume the contaminants in the soil, a process that will take 80 years to bring the site up to a level of a park and 200 years before the land is usable.
“If you just leave it like this it’ll take a thousand years,” Millenthorpe said. “It’ll reclaim the land a lot quicker.”