The home where the latest munitions were uncovered is federal property. Next door is the university president's home, and the South Korean ambassador lives on the other side.
Yeah, I saw this article earlier tonight. Unbelievable. Not exactly a feather in the cap of the Army Corps of Engineers, who (if the article is to be believed) were essentially packing to leave when this latest dump pit turned up. Nothing to see here, move along....
It's hard for me to blame the current Corps of Engineers. The real problem was obviously burying the junk to begin with, and either not recording the locations or losing the records. It's probably a near certainty that there are more sites left to be found.
The truth is that the current Corps have chosen to ignore the data they've been provided. When Keiper, Stanley and I were working on the documentary covering AU's history, we saw several maps and documents clearly identifying the locations in the AU archives. Enough so that we predicted the next cache they would encounter while excavating in 1998.
The archivist explained that he offered the information several times, but the Corps was not interested in it. They preferred, instead, to use their own detection tools.
Pretty much all of Tenleytown has chemical munitions buried beneath it. Senator Gramm's flower beds weren't dying because they had human biological waste on them. They were dying because-- No, wait. That was the reason.
Hmmm...looks like Chapin's original comment went away like a bad case of the hiccups.
But from what you say, yeah, seems like they should have used those maps. So now I'll blame my comment the reporter for not mentioning that sort of thing. Do you have any links or other info about the maps, etc?
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Yeah, I saw this article earlier tonight. Unbelievable. Not exactly a feather in the cap of the Army Corps of Engineers, who (if the article is to be believed) were essentially packing to leave when this latest dump pit turned up. Nothing to see here, move along....
It's hard for me to blame the current Corps of Engineers. The real problem was obviously burying the junk to begin with, and either not recording the locations or losing the records. It's probably a near certainty that there are more sites left to be found.
The truth is that the current Corps have chosen to ignore the data they've been provided. When Keiper, Stanley and I were working on the documentary covering AU's history, we saw several maps and documents clearly identifying the locations in the AU archives. Enough so that we predicted the next cache they would encounter while excavating in 1998.
The archivist explained that he offered the information several times, but the Corps was not interested in it. They preferred, instead, to use their own detection tools.
Pretty much all of Tenleytown has chemical munitions buried beneath it. Senator Gramm's flower beds weren't dying because they had human biological waste on them. They were dying because-- No, wait. That was the reason.
Never mind.
Hmmm...looks like Chapin's original comment went away like a bad case of the hiccups.
But from what you say, yeah, seems like they should have used those maps. So now I'll blame my comment the reporter for not mentioning that sort of thing. Do you have any links or other info about the maps, etc?
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