[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: Norton wants Spring Valley (DC) family relocated

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Eleanor Holmes Norton Wants Family Relocated from Spring Valley  
Superfund Site
She's "shocked" the excavation has proceeded while young children  
live across the street.

By Harry Jaffe
Washingtonian (DC)
February 21, 2013

The Spring Valley weapons testing dig - the country’s largest  
military Superfund site in a residential neighborhood - is making  
news again, after 20 years of excavations.

DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on Thursday released a letter  
sent to the Army Corps of Engineers demanding that the government  
move a family residing across the street from an active excavation.  
Norton's request that the government relocate the family, with two  
young children, was denied earlier this year.

"I was genuinely shocked to hear Mr. [Scott] Whiteford say that there  
is nothing that would allow the Army Corps to differentiate between  
children this young and adults living in the affected area," Norton  
wrote in her letter to Corps Lt. General Thomas Bostick. Whiteford  
heads the Corps' real estate division. "This conclusion is uninformed  
and ignores widely available scientific data and studies."
 ...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/eleanor- 
holmes-norton-wants-family-relocated-from-spring-valley-superfund- 
site.php

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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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