No Further Action Report Problems

What the District of Columbia did not know at the time was that the Army knew all along that there was a burial site at the Glenbrook Road home. They had discovered their mistake in the location of POI24 in 1994. They had conducted a geophysical survey of the property and had found an anomaly (a reading on a metal detector indicating the presence of metal underground), which they believed was a burial pit. Nevertheless, they wrote in the June 1995 No Further Action Record of Decision that there 

In 1996, the District of Columbia vigorously attacked the Army Corps of Engineer s conclusion of no further action in that same Final Report on the World War I Poison Gas Production at the AUES. Since then, the District s main contentions— that there were significant quantities of munitions, chemical glassware, and arsenic contamination remaining— have been proven to be 100 percent correct. 

the District of Columbia asserts that the emphasized statement quoted above is a mistake. The District maintains that trinitrotoluene (TNT) and tetryl are explosives and further, that Adamsite, chloroacetophenone, and phenyldichloroarsine were found in the original samples. These are all listed as chemical warfare agents in FM 3-9, Potential Military Chemical/ Biological Agents and Compounds (1990). Finally, numerous Lewisite and mustard breakdown products are identified in the sampling report. 

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