[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: Excavating "Hades" in Spring Valley, DC

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Zeroing In on Mystery of an Old Site Called Hades

By THEO EMERY
New York Times
March 17, 2012

WASHINGTON - For decades, affluent families have flocked to Spring  
Valley, a quiet neighborhood hugging the northwestern boundary of the  
nation’s capital. True to its name, magnolias are blooming and  
daffodils carpet the yards.

But during World War I, soldiers called it Death Valley. It was here  
that the Army cooked up chemical weapons, launched poison-packed  
mortar shells and sent gas clouds billowing over the fields.

When the war ended, soldiers buried the fearsome chemicals and  
munitions in pits that the Army forgot existed.

Now, the cleanup of what was known as the American University  
Experiment Station is nearing a crucial point. This spring, the Army  
Corps of Engineers plans to tear down a house that may be atop a lost  
burial pit that an Army sergeant called "Hades" in a grainy 1918  
photograph.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/us/hunt-zeros-in-on-the-mystery-of- 
an-old-site-called-hades.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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