[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMERS SITES: "Groundwater testing due near toxic [Spring Valley] D.C. house"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater testing due near toxic D.C. house

Neal Augenstein
WTOP Radio News (Washington, DC)
July 16, 2012

WASHINGTON - Weeks before the razing of a home built atop a former  
chemical weapons dumping ground, scientists will test groundwater in  
a nearby well to confirm elevated levels of arsenic and perchlorate.

Sampling begins this week in a well in the 4800 block of Glenbrook  
Road NW in the Spring Valley section of D.C.

After years of concern, and lawsuits, the U.S. Army Corps of  
Engineers determined earlier this year to remove the home at 4825  
Glenbrook Road. The two-story brick home remains abandoned among  
multimillion dollar houses in the neighborhood adjacent to American  
University.

"Testing from this spring found arsenic and perchlorate above  
acceptable Environmental Protection Agency levels," says Andrea  
Takash, public affairs spokesman with the Army Corps of Engineers.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.wtop.com/109/2945425/Water-testing-near-toxic-DC-house

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