[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Fort Totten Park, DC

[Lenny Siegel]

DC Del. Norton seeks Trump administration funding for Fort Totten chemical weapon investigation, cleanup

By Neal Augenstein  
WTOP TV News (DC)
February 3, 2025

More than 100 years after the end of World War I, WTOP has learned D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is seeking funding from the Trump administration to investigate and clean up any remaining chemical weapons buried in Fort Totten Park in Northeast.

Almost five years after an empty World War I-era chemical weapon shell was discovered by the National Park Service during construction of a trail through the park in July 2020, it’s still not clear whether Fort Totten Park has additional munitions buried in the Ward 5 park, located near the Fort Totten Metro station.

In 2022, WTOP reported the Fort Totten discovery was a prequel to the decades-long Spring Valley cleanup at the former American University Experiment Station. Once dubbed the “mother of all toxic dumps” — the site was used by the U.S. government for research and testing of chemical agents, equipment and munitions.

Since the 2020 discovery in Fort Totten Park, WTOP has learned the munitions were likely trucked across town from one of the most wealthy neighborhoods in Ward 3, of Northwest D.C., to the less affluent Ward 5.

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For the entire story, see
https://wtop.com/local/2025/02/dc-del-norton-seeks-trump-administration-funding-for-fort-totten-chemical-weapon-investigation-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)