[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FUDS: Spring Valley commentary

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spring Valley weapons search moving to reservoir

By Harry Jaffe
Washington Examiner (DC) Columnist
August 14, 2009

Funny how the Army Corps of Engineers keeps unearthing more poisons in 
Spring Valley. Only it's not so funny. It's downright alarming and scary.

Last week engineers hired to clean up a pit where the Army buried 
chemical weapons from World War I dug up a small flask encrusted with 
mustard gas. In the trench warfare during the 1914-1918 war, armies 
hurled mustard gas bombs across the killing fields to annihilate troops.

The corps said the vial posed no risk to the public. The corps has been 
telling us for 16 years that the bombs and chemical residue are harmless.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Harry-Jaffe-Spring-Valley-weapons-search-moving-to-reservoir_08_14-53175252.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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