2009 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Spring Valley (DC) mustard find
 
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
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