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Speaker 1: Fencing was erected around gold Star Mothers Park last month

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Speaker 1: after lead and other contaminants were found in the soil,

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Speaker 1: and the city says it may stay that way through

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: I think when they're put the initial signs up, people

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Speaker 2: were thinking like months, not a not multiple years.

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Speaker 1: Pretty frustrating, a little scary too. Obviously, the contamination was

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Speaker 1: found after recent construction and soil tests.

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Speaker 2: First thing was the basketball court, which I'm glad that

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Speaker 2: they were renovating it. It's just unfortunate that they started

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Speaker 2: renovating that and then just stopped abruptly.

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Speaker 1: The decontamination and reopening effort will need the cooperation from

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Speaker 1: the EPA, which means it may be a slow process.

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Speaker 1: The park originally opened in nineteen sixty eight, five years

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Speaker 1: after a meat processing plants on the same land burned

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Speaker 1: to the ground in Cambridge. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news

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Speaker 1: radio