Mare is being passionate about down there. It was and has been a very useful place over the years.
No One Likes Change. The dock is now gone along with several of the lock picking chests in the eastern side. You could easily GM lock picking down there and the chests had gold and decent loot at times. I know there are other place for saltpeter but the spawn rate and amount down there was off the hook.
Yes, I did talk to Mesanna down there as she was checking the place out. I was mining at the time. I had asked her if she was going to block it off and said no, now that she knew people used it. Even though it was a Global Event Area across all the shards it was a place that many of us used. Hopefully all the deco and new walls, rocks and etc will decay in time after the Event and we can all use it again.
EM place or not, it has served Catskills and it's people well for years and hopefully will remain after. I hate to see useful places fall to the wayside. It is a part of Cats history.