A bad deal
Barry Kissin   10/31/09 | 577 words

Fort Detrick occupies 1,200 acres, which is 10 percent of the land area of the entire City of Frederick. Of those 1,200 acres, 400 acres are in “Area B.” Area B is the site of numerous landfills, 43 of which were found in 1992 to be contaminated with TCE and PCE, two carcinogenic chemicals. In that same year, TCE contamination was discovered off-post in residential wells.