[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: More excavation in Spring Valley (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corps dig to return to Lot 18

By Christopher Cottrell
American University Eagle (DC)
April 14, 2008

The Army Corps of Engineers will begin digging on May 19 at Lot 18, 
located near the Public Safety building, to investigate three "anomaly 
clusters," or unidentified metallic items, the project manager of the 
USACE military munitions response program said during a meeting of the 
Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board Tuesday.

The dig will be a "low probability" investigation, meaning the Army 
Corps will perform it without an air-filtering structure in place, 
according to Project Manager Dan Noble.

Test results have revealed a high presence of metals in the ground 
surrounding Public Safety, Noble said.

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For the entire article, see
http://media.www.theeagleonline.com/media/storage/paper666/news/2008/04/14/News/Corps.Dig.To.Return.To.Lot.18-3322302.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition

See also the accompanying editorial at
http://media.www.theeagleonline.com/media/storage/paper666/news/2008/04/14/Opinions/Staff.Editorial.Digging.For.Real.Answers-3321355.shtml


Digging for real answers
Corps' return to Lot 18 reminds the AU community of toxic materials 
found on campus before and underscores the need for more transparency.

Staff Editorial
American University Eagle (DC)
April 14, 2008


This week's news that an Army Corps of Engineers team plans to move to a 
lot behind the Public Safety building to finish clean-up efforts brings 
back memories of the Corps' previous discovery of dangerous levels of 
arsenic behind the Public Safety office and near Kreeger and Hamilton halls.

The EPA maintains that arsenic levels above 43 parts per million (ppm) 
are unhealthy, so it's astoundingly clear that the 276,000 ppm the Army 
Corps detected and later removed from the soil near Kreeger and Hamilton 
present an immense risk to the AU community. Even though the Army Corps 
says that these deposits in the solid form are only a miniscule threat 
to students' health, the relative silence of AU administrators is a 
danger in and of itself. The Eagle only uncovered this updated 
information through faceless, unpublicized meeting minutes, which the 
average student does not know exist. Administrators have remained 
utterly uncooperative despite multiple interview and information 
requests throughout the entire process.

...


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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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