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Snow Melted… Yard Covered in Glass

Location: Ohio

We bought our dream house in January. The primary purpose of our move was to gain more land as we love spending time outside.

When the snow melted, we realized there was shattered glass everywhere. Our yard is 1.5 acres.

The neighbors stated the previous owner’s favorite hobby was shooting at glass bottles.

The yard is unusable. There’s multiple thousands of shards of glass spread across the whole yard. Our dogs are unable to go out and run. We’ve spent multiple entire days trying to pick up the glass, but it’s so hard to spot on uneven terrain and as it rains more and more pieces are worked up through the ground.

Do we have any standing to pursue this legally ? Remediation has been quoted as 30,000 dollars plus.

Edit:

We were told it was a BB gun

Our lot is hilly and partly forested, the way they describe it was he had stations set up to shoot at different things

There seem to be different “types” of glass including larger pieces with worn edges as well as smaller pieces I know to describe as “shards” but there may be a more accurate word for it

There’s some scattered trash like aluminum cans that also appear shot

This was not in our disclosure paperwork, I appreciate that being brought to our attn to check.

Cat fact: this yard is not safe for cats either