Aberdeen Proving Ground RDX soil contamination

Environmental contamination of former JP Morgan hunting reserve turned Army firing range. Used to make a point about military environmental legacy.

There's other things. If you go down to Aberdeen [Proving] Ground for the Army, there's RDX everywhere in the ground. That's the firing range — used to be JP Morgan's private hunting reserve before the income tax. There's deer running around, it's a beautiful area at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. To pay his tax when they came out with the income tax, JP Morgan gave away his hunting preserve, and it's now been a shooting range for the last 80 years. There's still deer, and there's still shots going off, but they're not shooting at the deer. There's RDX all over the soil — a huge environmental site.