[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FUDS: Dalecarlia Woods, Spring Valley, DC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Search for WWI Munitions Moves to Dalecarlia Woods
Town Hall Set This Week on Spring Valley Cleanup

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post
October 6, 2009

The biggest mortars were fired from the concrete gun emplacement that 
still sits in the underbrush beside the driveway of Robert Herzstein's 
elegant home near American University in Northwest Washington.

Smaller rounds would fly over what is now Woodway Lane and go as far as 
Sedgwick Street. The four-inch mortars could reach as far as the future 
Tilden Street. And the fat eight-inch Livens shells, whose firing tubes 
were steadied in the concrete, could loft across what would become 
Dalecarlia Parkway into the woods beyond.

That flight path is what brought geophysicists Ryan Coolbaugh and 
Lynelle Brode and their weird red metal detector there one day last week 
in the ongoing quest for buried World War I munitions.

Coolbaugh and Brode are part of the latest chapter in the 16-year, $170 
million search for lost chemical weapons in the city's well-to-do Spring 
Valley neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100501811.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
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