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How firing ranges’ hidden costs are passed onto taxpayers

Salt Lake City stuck with cleaning up Parleys Canyon shooting range run by private police association for 50 years.

(Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities) The Police Mutual Aid Association operated this firing range in Parleys Canyon from 1969 to 2019. About 12 acres of city-owned property here remains contaminated with lead bullet fragments and pellets about a half mile from a reservoir. Taxpayers are on the cleanup, excepted to cost up to $3 million.