[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, FORMER SITES: Spring Valley (DC) health study proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Norton's brush with activist could net $1 million

Column by Harry Jaffe
Washington Examiner (DC)
July 7, 2011



On Thursday, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton took to the House floor and  
offered an amendment to get $1 million for a health study to  
determine if toxic chemicals from World War I weapons have made  
residents ill in the Spring Valley neighborhood.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was midway through the Palisades July 4  
parade route on Monday when a fellow in fatigues and a World War I  
doughboy helmet approached her. He looked a tad batty, but this was  
Palisades' day for marching on the edge.

Allen Hengst handed Norton a flier about the search for World War I  
weapons in Spring Valley, a neighborhood over the hill about a mile  
east of Palisades. It described the basics: that the Army had used  
what is now American University to experiment with chemical weapons  
in 1917. It had dumped toxic waste in what were then forests and  
fields; since 1993 the Army Corps of Engineers has been digging up  
bombs and bottles of arsenic under what are now some of the most  
valuable homes in the Distric


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For the entire column, see
http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/07/nortons-brush-activist- 
could-net-1-million

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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