[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FUDS: Spring Valley (DC) panel

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps cleanup watched closely

Thomas M. Smith
WASHINGTON TIMES (DC)
May 6, 2009

The Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to conclude its ordnance 
cleanup in the Spring Valley area next year, but experts urged residents 
to make certain the work is thorough.

Members of a panel that gathered last week expressed particular concern 
about the threat to the city's drinking water supply because of high 
levels of perchlorate, which is used in explosives that were used around 
American University and Sibley Hospital and near the Delacarlia Reservoir.

The panel, which convened at a meeting of the Ward 3 Democratic 
Committee, examined challenges confronting the cleanup of chemical 
military pollution in Spring Valley and at more than 200 other sites 
across the country. Chemical weapons were found in Spring Valley in 1993 
during construction of a residential development. The university was a 
World War I chemical weapons research and experimental station.

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For the entire article, see
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/06/corps-cleanup-watched-closely/

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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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