{"id":3057,"date":"2008-01-15T06:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/not_in_my_backyard-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:10:50","slug":"not_in_my_backy_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/not_in_my_backy_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Not In My Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inventive excuse for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01152008\/news\/regionalnews\/brooklyn_bombshell_954001.htm\">why that trash transfer station is wrong for the neighborhood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A dredging plan to create a Brooklyn waterfront waste-transfer station could have explosive repercussions, as it could set off anti-aircraft shells lost by the military in Gravesend Bay over 50 years ago, a state Assemblyman charged yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>As the state Department of Environmental Conservation today is set to hold a final public hearing on the Bensonhurst station plan, Assemblyman William Colton (D-Brooklyn) made the revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Colton said his office recently learned that a barge unloading live ammunition from the aircraft carrier USS Bennington capsized in Gravesend Bay in March 1954, taking with it 219 tons of munitions.<\/p>\n<p>The barge turned up a day later but without the more than 15,000 shells aboard. The Navy said it recovered 15,003 shells by January 1955.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inventive excuse for why that trash transfer station is wrong for the neighborhood: A dredging plan to create a Brooklyn waterfront waste-transfer station could have explosive repercussions, as it could set off anti-aircraft shells lost by the military in Gravesend Bay over 50 years ago, a state Assemblyman charged yesterday. As the state Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}