EPA Says It Will Toss Artifacts from Historic 18th Century Fort into a Landfill

CNSNews.com ^ | 8/18/09 | Adam Brickley

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) – Less than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency restarted a controversial dredging project on the Hudson River, dredgers operated by the General Electric Company dislodged wooden beams that are the last remnants of one of the largest British forts in the American colonies.

The EPA now says that the beams are contaminated with potential carcinogens known as PCBs and therefore must be buried in a landfill

[Born to Conserve]

If it is defined as waste, it is under the authority of the EPA, and they have to bury it. If someone in authority had it declared “useful material”, it would not be under the authority of the EPA, and it would not have to be buried.

The gubberment is funny about that.

[greatplains]

Amazing how fast they can get lab results back when they want to...they did send samples to the lab, right?

[call meVeronica]

The same EPA that pushes the flourescent lights that contain mercury that can be inhaled when the lights get broken...

[bgill]

Wow, if this isn’t emblematic of 0’s philosophical bent... Rip up the underpinnings and history of America and toss it all in the landfill.

Needed repeating.

[Oldpuppymax]

Why do I have the feeling that if these were timbers from an old Colonial slave ship, all of the “contamination” stuff would be ignored and they’d be on their way to the Smithsonian?

[TXnMA]

Archaeological outrage by EcoNazis PING!

Historic "timbers 'covered with PCB oil'" -- so they must go in a landfill.

Those idiots at EPA never heard of detergents? Dispose of what is washed off -- not the artifacts!!!

Bureaucratic IDIOTS!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Will add, but probably not ping.

CREWS ACCIDENTALLY REMOVE PART OF NY’S OLDEST FORT
(Environmentalism Destroys)
New York Post | August 14, 2009
Posted on 08/14/2009 7:55:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316471/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[PghBaldy]

EPA- a bunch of hysterical dimwits, who make people use crappy fuel in their cars, which hurts poor people (raises food prices) and seeps into water supplies.