U.S. attorney requests dismissal of developer's case against Fort Detrick

[unhappycamper]

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/courts/u-s-attorney-requests-dismissal-of-developer-s-case-against/article_e08b3812-a5a8-5615-b4e3-c50ff5210d9b.html

U.S. attorney requests dismissal of developer's case against Fort Detrick
Posted: Friday, August 1, 2014 2:00 am
By Sylvia Carignan News-Post Staff

A U.S. attorney asked a judge Thursday to dismiss developer Waverley View’s lawsuit against Fort Detrick.

The U.S. attorney representing Fort Detrick argued that an exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act protects the Army’s waste disposal practices in the base’s Area B. Waverley View sued the Army in May for neglecting to clean up chemical, radiological and biological contamination left over from Fort Detrick’s decades of research.

The exception “protects decisions to bury chemical waste in unlined pits because there were no applicable mandatory and specific directives at the time of disposal,” the U.S. attorney said in court documents.

Though Waverley argued it was the Army’s duty to clean up the contamination, the U.S. attorney said that the Environmental Protection Agency had not yet regulated certain contaminants when Fort Detrick first started disposing of waste at Area B, and therefore, could not have known that they were dangerous.

[FreakinDJ]

1. That argument doesn't work

Seen numerous companies have to go back and clean up chemicals the Fed Government had told them it was ok to dispose of that way at the time

[unhappycamper]

2. Current Known water problems around military installations:

Otis AFB in Cape Cod, Camp LeJeune and the latest: http://www.stripes.com/news/is-fort-polk-s-water-safe-officials-say-yes-experts-disagree-1.296483