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Lawmaker: Missing ammo poses New York harbor danger |
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:07 |
By RICHARD PYLE |Associated Press Writer
7:09 PM EST, January 14, 2008
NEW
YORK - Before the city's Sanitation Department starts building a new
garbage-transfer station on the edge of New York harbor, it may have to
clean up something more potentially explosive than rancid food that
stayed too long on the shelf, says a state lawmaker.
Back on
March 6, 1954, hundreds of tons of Korean War-vintage munitions were
being loaded off the aircraft carrier USS Bennington when a sudden
storm caused a barge to capsize and break loose, spilling its cargo. By
the time the barge was found upside down six miles away, it was empty.
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