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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps starts new digs on AU campus

By Christopher Cottrell
American University Eagle (DC)
September 9, 2009

Trench investigations for dangerous materials are scheduled to start 
next week at three locations within AU, in order to investigate the 
whereabouts of chemicals from World War I, the project manager of the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military response program said during a 
meeting of the Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board Tuesday, Sept. 8.

The Corps determined the location of these "ground scars" using aerial 
photographs from 1922. The Corps hopes to establish whether or not the 
disturbances came from the disposal of chemical munitions or laboratory 
glassware during World War I. In 1917, the Bureau of Mines and the 
Army's Chemical Warfare Service developed and tested approximately 600 
gases at AU they intended to use overseas, The Eagle previously reported.

"We're going to dig into those ground disturbances and see if there is 
anything there related to the [AU Experiment Station]," Project Manager 
Todd Beckwith said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/corps-starts-new-digs-on-au-campus

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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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