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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical weapons waste at Spring Valley about to blow


By Harry Jaffe
Washington Examiner Columnist
June 12, 2009

Seems everywhere the military sets up shop, it often leaves a mess, 
sometimes a toxic one. Since the Washington region is home to many forts 
and bases, airfields and Navy yards, we are also the home to a few toxic 
waste sites.

With great irony, the most toxic site is also in one of the capital 
city’s most elite neighborhoods: Spring Valley. The Northwest community, 
by the Maryland line, has been home to presidents and generals and 
senators for decades.

And since the U.S. Army used the farms and forests around Ward Circle to 
develop chemical weapons for World War I, it has been the resting place 
for bombs filled with mustard gas and arsenic and poison gases such as 
arsine.

....

Not so fast, says Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. At a hearing this week 
before her subcommittee, she said: “The Corps had no right to announce 
its exit without more, especially considering the many errors and 
missteps so far and an absence of transparency over the years that 
borders on suppression on information.”

....

For the entire column, see
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/HarryJaffe/Chemical-weapons-waste-at-Spring-Valley-about-to-blow-47952627.html



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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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