Source: https://wtop.com/, January 24, 2023
By: John Domen

By all accounts, the 3-acre plot of land near the Cheverly Metro in Maryland is a dump. The only building on the site, a former recycling center, burned down in a two-alarm fire in 2019, and now the lot is full of trash.

There are mattresses, tires, construction debris, and piles that can be seen easily from Columbia Park Road in Cheverly. A lawsuit filed this month by the state of Maryland says there’s also lots of chemicals and fluids stored there, with nothing stopping them from draining into nearby Beaverdam Creek, a tributary into the Anacostia River. Read more.