[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: Spring Valley, DC

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical remnants of war scattered across campus, Spring Valley  
neighborhood

By Sylvia Carignan
American University Eagle (DC)
April 18, 2011
This is the final story of a seven-part series investigating World  
War I-era chemical weapons and equipment buried under AU's campus and  
in the Spring Valley neighborhood.





In a photograph dated 1918, a World War I Army sergeant stands over a  
row of ceramic jugs and wooden barrels, lined up near a gaping hole  
in the ground.

"The bottles are full of mustard, to be destroyed here. In Death  
Valley. The hole called Hades," the back of the photo reads.

The chemical burial pit known as "Hades" is approximately located at  
the now AU-owned 4825 Glenbrook Rd., and the Army Corps'  
investigation has removed hundreds of munitions and chemical  
containers from this pit.

Though there were several pits, the sergeant called this one "the  
most feared and respected place on the grounds."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/chemical-remnants-of- 
scattered-across-campus-spring-valley-neighborhood/

For the accompanying editorial, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/opinion/story/staff-editorial-becoming- 
aware-of-the-toxic-chemicals-in-our-own-backyard/




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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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