[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: Spring Valley (DC) home to be razed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical munitions still plague DC neighborhood

By Patricia Kime
Army Times
August 19, 2011

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to tear down a $3.4 million  
home in northwest Washington, D.C., because it was built on a  
disposal pit for the Army’s World War I-era chemical weapons  
manufacturing plant.

Excavations at the house since 2000 have uncovered smoking canisters  
of arsenic trichloride, liquid mustard, munitions and hardware  
related to the Army's chemical warfare program, which operated at  
nearby American University from 1917 to 1918.

The recommendation to raze the home is another chapter in the Corps  
of Engineers' ongoing effort to clean up Spring Valley, the affluent  
neighborhood located next to AU.

"The preferred remedy will be the removal of the home," said USACE  
project manager Brenda Barber. "It has the potential to be returned  
to a residential lot" after 12 to 18 months of cleanup, she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/08/military-chemical-munitions- 
plague-washington-neighborhood-081911w/

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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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