[CPEO-MEF] MEDICAL WASTE: Forest Glen Annex, Silver Spring, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community, Army investigate contamination at Forest Glen Annex

by Kara Rose and Sylvia Carignan
Gaithersburg Gazette (MD)
October 17, 2012

Carroll McKown, a 27-year Navy veteran, said what her Silver Spring  
neighbors don’t know about the Forest Glen Annex might hurt them.

Waste dating back to the 1940s by the Walter Reed Army Medical Center  
could be on the military installation's site - and the community is  
hoping to find out just what is buried there.
Six sites on the annex have been identified as areas for review,  
including three landfills, a car wash area, the site of an oil leak  
and a streambed contaminated with suspected carcinogens.

McKown has owned her Silver Spring home since 1978. She said most of  
her neighbors don't know the history of the annex. Health concerns,  
stemming from the landfills, worry her the most.

"This has got to be corrected so we do not have a health problem and  
contamination of the area," McKown said. "Of course, this has to be  
done by people who know the engineering aspects of this and how to do  
it well."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gazette.net/article/20121017/NEWS/710179449/1081/community- 
army-investigate-contamination-at-forest-glen-annex&template=gazette

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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