[CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley (DC) burial pit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Digging To Recover Old Gas Shells

By Steve Vogel
Washington Post (DC)
October 30, 2007

Operating under tight safety restrictions, the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers yesterday began excavating what it calls the "last known 
burial pit" of World War I chemical munitions in Northwest Washington's 
Spring Valley neighborhood.

The Army expects to excavate at least fifteen 75mm artillery rounds -- a 
dozen or more with mustard gas and three with arsine, both toxic 
chemical agents -- buried in the affluent residential neighborhood that 
was once a site for developing and testing chemical weapons.

To protect the neighborhood from an accidental release of gases, the 
Army has erected a large metal containment structure over the pit in the 
4800 block of Glenbrook Road, next to an unoccupied home behind American 
University.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102901923.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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