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| Bob |
Washoe County May Soon Outlaw metal detecting.I contacted washoe county park services in order to figure out if it was illegal to metal detect in "our" public parks, and here is the response I recieved. I encourage anyone whom cares about this issue to contact Al and voice your opinion regarding their decision to "update the code". We all know what he means when he says they are looking to update the code.
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| Bob |
We need an organization like the automotive aftermarket has (SEMA) to fight this kind of legislation and restrictions. | ||
| Reno Chris |
Contact Daryl at Reno Prospectors Supply - 315 Claremont St.
The City of Reno proposed something similar a few years ago and the local metal detecting club participated and got thing resolved. The problem is that there are jerks who go out and dig pits and damage the grass with their detecting, and the grounds keepers get pissed off. Chris |
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| Bob |
Yep, I agree Chris, a few bad apples can ruin it for all of us. But the good news is that I may have spoke too soon. After sending another e-mail, I recieved the following response. If anyone gets a chance, send Al an e-mail and thank him for taking our position into consideration when the new codes are written.
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| rehab |
it has been my experience that county and city parks usually don't have a problem, where as the fed and state does, especially if the effort entails disturbance of water way features such as the shoreline, or inlet washes.
For example, it could prove very lucrative to dredge or detect the Carson River below Carson City, in the hopes of locating some pocket of enriched amalgam put into it by the careless and wasteful practices of the Comstock mining and milling days. but to disturb the mercury as it lays could also land a guy in jail, or place then at the hands of a foreboding EPA agency. No major gov agency is mining freindly these days, and even poking around some old dumps near civilization could open a can of worms over metal salt contamination, residues, leachates, and soil challenges. Then you have all these regular uniformed citizens and residents looking for a cause and a way to get brownie points with live video, and catching somebody in the act. Mind you, it's not that someone is doing anything wrong; it boils down to the appearance of doing something seriously wrong that brings in the authorities to investigate; amny of them as equally uninformed/ |
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