Army Corps dumps old bombs, charges town.

[Johnboy60]

SURF CITY, N.J. - The Army Corps of Engineers, which accidentally dumped sand filled with old military ordnance on Surf City's beach, now wants the town to help pay to remove it.

Local officials are angered by the suggestion that they should help foot the bill for a federal goof that already has cost the town an unknown amount of tourism business.

"If they're talking about getting any money out of Surf City to pay for their mistakes, they can forget about it," Mayor Leonard T. Connors told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070806...nance_found;_ylt=AoCxOViybLlrSRJZixs7V_DtiBIF

 

[Billnew]

Need to completely sift the sand.

If the military brought it in, they are responsable.
If the military pumped the sand up on the beach, then
its both parties involved responsability. Ie the explosives were in the waters bed.

, started surfacing in sand pumped ashore during a $71 million beach replenishment project.

Sounds like the explosives were already there, but were dreged up by moving the sand.

 

[soblessed53]

This is not unusual for our government. Rotten,but usual.