[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: Spring Valley (DC) house to be torn down

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps votes to tear down AU-owned house on munitions site

By Sylvia Carignan
American University Eagle (DC)
November 1, 2011

The Army Corps of Engineers is announcing its next move in the  
decades-long process to clean up WWI munitions: razing a home near  
AU's main campus.

At a public meeting on Oct. 26, the Army Corps formally presented its  
plan to remove chemical materials deemed unsafe from the AU-owned  
property 4825 Glenbrook Rd., adjacent to the Kreeger building parking  
lot.

The proposed plan, which AU endorses, is to demolish the unoccupied  
house on the property, excavate much of the yard and restore the lot  
to residential standards.

The Army Corps has taken a "very aggressive approach to this  
property," said Col. David Anderson, commander of the Spring Valley  
project.

"This has become a notorious address in Spring Valley," Rep. Eleanor  
Holmes Norton, D-DC, said, one that is about to be "wiped off the  
face of the map."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/army-corps-votes-to-tear- 
down-au-owned-house-on-munitions-site/

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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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