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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps to destroy WWI munitions found in D.C.

By BRETT ZONGKER
Associated Press/WTOP Radio (DC)
January 7, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to destroy a 
slew of World War I-era munitions uncovered during a cleanup of a 
northwest Washington neighborhood beginning next week, officials said 
Thursday.

The Army Corps will use a detonation chamber near Sibley Memorial 
Hospital in the pricey Spring Valley neighborhood to dispose of about 
100 munitions found buried in the yard of a home near American 
University, said project manager Todd Beckwith. The process begins next 
week and will cost about $500,000, including months of planning. The 
project to destroy the munitions already found will take about two weeks.



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Lenny Siegel
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