[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Spring Valley (DC) mustard find

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mustard gas find halts Army Corps dig

By Nicole Glass
American University Eagle (DC)
August 30, 2009


The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found an open glass flask containing 
traces of the chemical agent mustard two feet below ground at a vacant 
home behind AU on Aug. 12.

The findings were at 4825 Glenbrook Road, behind AU’s Public Safety 
building.

David Taylor, chief of staff to President Neil Kerwin, said the flask 
posed no threat to the surrounding area, and the chemical did not seem 
to have leaked into the surrounding soil.

...

In 1917, AU was established to be a large-scale chemical warfare 
research center with laboratories, test sites and other facilities for 
studying the various chemical, physiological and mechanical aspects of 
gas warfare.

...

For the entire article and comments, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/mustard-gas-find-halts-army-corps-dig

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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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