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Board members and residents press for inspections after claims tombstones used as riprap on Project Harmony
Summary
During new-business discussion, board members reported finding tombstones along Project Harmony work sites and said contractors used gravestones as riprap; members asked for photo updates and on-site visits and staff said a land-disturbance permit had been issued.
Board members raised concerns about Project Harmony — a multi-reach shoreline restoration effort discussed during new business — after reports that contractors used crushed material and, allegedly, tombstones from a Washington, D.C., Black cemetery as riprap along the shoreline.
A board member described the work and said contractors were to crush a debris pile for use in road material and to remove tombstones from the shoreline, replacing them…
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