Jan 16, 2023

Ft. Totten ANC Wants More Testing in Vicinity of Toxic Dump Sites

So far, only limited areas around the trail and the original WMATA staging area [at Ft. Totten] have undergone any sort of testing.  There is very good reason to believe that the known toxic soil moved [pgs. 13 - 14] from the WMATA staging area in 1992 was used in the landscape restoration project ... a few hundred yards to the east that's why the [AUES] soil was brought to the Ft. Totten area to begin with ... The vast majority of the area of concern where landscape restoration took place [pg. 2] at the exact time and place a large portion of known toxic soil went missing, and in the exact location where a WWI-era chemical weapon was found 30 years later remains completely untested ... 
Spring Valley is the richest part of DC, and is overwhelmingly white.  Why, then, when that wealthy part of DC dumps its toxic waste in a majority black neighborhood park on the other side of town, do we have to wait thirty-plus years to get some simple tests conducted?  We know with certainty that at least some of the exact same toxic soil that caused a thirty-year cleanup project in the wealthiest part of DC ended up here, in a middle class black neighborhood, why hasn't there been even a fraction of the effort on this side of DC?  There is ample evidence to suggest that there may well be chemical weapons and/or dangerous levels of chemicals of concern in our neighborhood park more testing needs to be done.  

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