Arlington expansion prompts environmental concerns

Critics believe that the 27-acre Millennium Project expansion of Arlington National Cemetery would damage a stream and trees that have been at the site since the Civil War. Critics have asked the cemetery to consider a day when they will not have room to bury anyone else.

Cemetery officials plan to dedicate a new area on Thursday where over 20,000 cremated remains can be stored. Without the expansion of this particular area, the cemetery will run out of room by 2016. Overall, if Arlington is not expanded as a whole, the cemetery will be full by 2025. The Millennium Project expansion would add nearly 30,000 gravesites, but it would also remove hundreds of trees.