[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, CHEMEAPONS: found in Spring Valley (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Corps finds chemical compound in tube

The Associated Press
Examiner (DC)
July 9, 2008


WASHINGTON - Officials running the cleanup of World War I-era chemical 
munitions buried in Washington's Spring Valley neighborhood have 
recovered a new military compound at the current excavation.

Dan Noble, project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, 
says they found a sealed glass test tube on June 13 that contained 
traces of a military vomiting agent known as DA. The chemical was sent 
to the Army's chemical station at Edgewood, Md.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-1478423~Army_Corps_finds_chemical_compound_in_tube.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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