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Hello Iain Stuart,
One of the early proposals for artifacts in the West Point Foundry Marsh/Marathon Battery EPA clean-up (Nike missile batteries batteries produced, those sites probably another whole level up of possible contamination) where incendiary and large rifled cannons was developed in the US Civil War, was to store them there in a bunker, built across the Hudson River from US West Point Military Academy in Cold Spring, NY. Various stages of negotiation resulted in some of the artifacts to be taken to another foundry museum and elsewhere off site. I for one would, in hindsight would liked to have known more about the 40,000 caissons, and the 1 million shells, and prior and post history, before visiting the beautiful Constitution Island environs frequented by Audubon members and now others, part of the Scenic Hudson's holdings, who fought long to stop the damming of the Hudson River at Storm King for power generation, just above the Pointer's echo.
The cadmium contaminated marsh was hauled out in concrete blocks on the historic railbed instead of through town putting a rail spur back where one had been.
Best regards,
======= At 2004-06-27, 01:43:55 you wrote: =======
>OH!!! dont tell my work... I'll be transferred to the contaminated sites unit. .
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>We could of course plant all our sites with grass and trees and call it biological remediation and we could visit twice a year while the archaeology is remediated into dust voer the next 10000 years. A nice little earner.
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>Some artefacts such as UXO's may be both artefacts and contamination and last year I worked on such a site - a former WWII amunition depot, the artefacts were over 50 years old and therefore "relics" under NSW law.
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>Iain Stuart
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