[Tagging] Landfill undergoing restoration

[Kevin Kenny]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:08 PM Dian Ågesson <me at diacritic.xyz> wrote:

> How should a landfill undergoing active restoration be tagged? Capping a
> landfill is a long process, during which access is normally restricted and
> the company doing the capping is making deliveries of material. If the
> material is hazardous, the land might just sit unused for decades before
> brownfield development can commence.
>
> There is a clear tagging structure for both active landfills and
> abandoned/capped landfills, but a landfill being actively
> restored/rehabilitated doesn't really fit these tags well: the land is
> still identifiable as a landfill and isn't generally used for anything else
> until it's capped; marking it as "disused" doesn't capture the current
> state accurately (as a landfill being capped can't generally be changed
> back to active); and marking it an active landfill isn't completely
> accurate either.
>
> I was thinking of using a tag such as {{tag|landfill|restoration}} to
> capture this information: it could even be rendered slightly differently,
> similar to how {{tag|basin|infiltration}} differs from {{tag|basin}}.
> Alternatively, a tag like {{tag|landuse|rehabilitation}} in conjunction
> with an abandoned tag could be used for both landfills and any other land
> rehabilitation project?
>

It's not clear to me how far rehabilitation must have proceeded before a
disused landfill turns into a brownfield.  If there's no other coherent
suggestion, I think that `abandoned:landuse=landfill + landuse=brownfield`
would at least express the intention to reclaim and rehabilitate the land.
The 'abandoned' prefix is a step beyond 'disused', and indicates that the
feature is not in a condition to be returned to service easily. My general
impression is that 'brownfield' precedes 'construction' in the reclamation
process, so there doesn't actually have to be active redevelopment to tag
something as a 'brownfield'.

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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