[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: New Johns Hopkins study in Spring Valley (DC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Spring Valley residents still harbor health concerns, despite new  
Hopkins study

By Sylvia Carignan
Washington Post
December 7, 2011

Janet Bohlen inspects a faded 1918 photo of a dozen Army soldiers  
standing shoulder-deep in rugged trenches....

The Bohlens have lived in the Spring Valley section of Northwest  
Washington for 52 years, raising three children and now settling into  
retirement. Over the past two decades, the Army Corps of Engineers  
has excavated pockets of their wealthy, tree-lined neighborhood,  
which was built over the Army's World War I chemical warfare testing  
grounds, to analyze possible contamination.

Now, Johns Hopkins University is about to embark on yet another  
health study in this neighborhood. The Bohlens are typical of  
families there who still wonder whether certain cancers and other  
serious health problems have been caused by the presence of buried  
toxic chemicals.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/spring-valley-residents-still- 
harbor-health-concerns-despite-new-hopkins-study/2011/12/07/ 
gIQA3uuDoO_story.html

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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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