The FBI’s search of a pond near Frederick, Md., part of the bureau’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, is in its third — and possibly final — week, the Frederick News-Post reported yesterday (see GSN, June 13).

At the pond, which was drained earlier this month, a power shovel has been dumping mud taken from the pond bottom into a box-like structure that acts as large strainer, according to the News-Post.  Workers then spray the mud with water and comb through it using rake-like tools to search for evidence.  Previous searches of the pond, employing divers, recovered what appeared to be pieces of laboratory equipment, prompting the expanded search effort (Liz Babiarz, Frederick News-Post, June 25).

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