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Washington, D.C.’s Fort Reno Park has hosted free shows by many of the city’s punk and indie stalwarts–Fugazi, the Dismemberment Plan, and Ted Leo are just a few–as part of its long-standing summer concert series. But this summer’s slate of shows is up in the air, thanks to the park being closed indefinitely yesterday after a satellite employed by the United States Geological Survey found high levels of arsenic in its soil. The promoters of the shows are waiting for further testing of the soil, but in the meantime they’re asking for donations for future musical endeavors “at Fort Reno, some new venue, or something wholly new.” [Going Out Gurus]