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 ... 

Higher levels of chemicals found along trail (ANC 5A-09)

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.  

Zachary Ammerman, ANC 5A-09
Ft. Totten "Toxic Waste Timeline"
January 16, 2023