From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:22:14 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Fort Totten Park (DC) |
Del. Norton pushes more testing at Fort Totten Park after 2020 discovery of empty WWI shell by Neal Augenstein WTOP (Washington, DC) February 8, 202 There’s a new push to investigate Fort Totten Park in D.C. for the possible link between the 2020 discovery of an empty World War I shell and the decadeslong Spring Valley cleanup of chemical weapons. Last year, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she was assured no other evidence of weapons or safety concerns had been found. “They assured they have done a very thorough search of the entire area,” Norton told WTOP in March 2022. “That’s all I have to go on, and I’m going to have to hold them to it.” Now, Norton has asked the director of the National Park Service to dig deeper — literally, and figuratively. … For the entire article, see https://wtop.com/dc/2023/02/norton-pushes-more-testing-at-fort-totten-park-after-2020-discovery-of-unexploded-wwi-shell/ -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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