gutshootem
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https://www.militarypoisons.org/lat...-massive-contamination-in-chesapeake-beach-md
Anyone else see this article? Thoughts?
Anyone else see this article? Thoughts?
Everywhere the military goes they leave a super fund site in the wake.
This.
In addition to the chemical pollution, take a look at a marine chart of the Bay - dozens of unexploded ordnance, dumped waste, etc.
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In the area roughly bounded by MD 295/32/MARC RR tracks/Patuxent River you should be very careful sticking a shovel in the ground!!! That area was armor training ranges for many years and UXO is plentiful. The rest of Fort Meade is suspect for UXO and has/had multiple Superfund sites for other contamination.You can browse these sites easily. They seem well documented.
A superfund site that is terribly fascinating is Pitcher, OK. They mined the land there and stirred up a lot of dust. The following rates of mental disabilities came next with the heavy metal poisoning.
Not surprised. I heard Russett community at 198/295, or better yet, across from Total Wine, was a range receiving many rounds of practice from Camp Meade.
In the area roughly bounded by MD 295/32/MARC RR tracks/Patuxent River you should be very careful sticking a shovel in the ground!!! That area was armor training ranges for many years and UXO is plentiful. The rest of Fort Meade is suspect for UXO and has/had multiple Superfund sites for other contamination.
....and yes, some was found behind the old 7-11 along 198, but that was before you get to the parkway. Never heard of any in Russett. Ranges never extended much past the Parkway.
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The ballfields on MD198 on the other side of the Little Pax from Tipton took over two years to complete........turn over ground, clunk, UXO survey, remediate, turn over ground, clunk, rinse, repeat, and repeat, and repeat......Tipton air field. One UXO was found. Brought in crew to assess. There was a front page photo, maybe even shared on MDS where the whole lot was just marker flags.
Oddly enough, many local economies depend on unpolluted water.I keep reading articles about pfas in the tidal waters all around here. I get that water and soil contamination is a concern but I hope this doesn't lead to base or facility closures. Our local economy is very dependent on military facilities.
To answer this question, I'll refer you back to Fort Meade.....The site of the Navy campground in Solomon's was used during WWII to manufacture mines and torpedoes. I have wondered why the Navy has kept the base open and not sold the valuable land. They have a small support equipment rework facility there besides the campground, for justification? Could ordnance be buried there, too?