The
US Army Crops of Engineers accidentally dumped hundreds of unexploded
pieces of ordnance on the beach at Surf City.
Now, they want the city to help pay for the cleanup.
"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.
Apparently they conducted a 71 million dollar reconstruction of the
beaches, unknowingly using sand from a World War I dump site.
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