Norton Statement on Meeting with National Park Service, Army Corps of Engineers and WMATA on Ordnance Found on Fort Totten Trail

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a statement on her meeting earlier this week with the National Park Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to discuss the unexploded ordnance found on Fort Totten Trail in the District of Columbia. Norton requested the meeting.

"I have been working to clean up the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site since ordnance were first discovered there, in 1993, and the discovery of an unexploded ordnance on Fort Totten Trail was extremely concerning," Norton said. "However, we had a productive meeting, and I was reassured that there has been a thorough search of the area without turning up additional issues. I am committed to ensuring that residents across the District of Columbia are safe from ordnance, chemical weapons, and soil and groundwater contamination."

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