[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES, NATURAL RESOURCES: "Access to Silver Spring’s Forest Glen [MD] during toxic-chemical cleanup worries neighborS"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Access to Silver Spring’s Forest Glen during toxic-chemical cleanup  
worries neighbors

By Alexia Campbell
Washington Post
June 25, 2013

The old stone house sits in ruins next to a stream. Neighbors say  
it’s the most beautiful spot in a wooded expanse in Silver Spring,  
where joggers, dog walkers and cyclists can find a refuge inside the  
Capital Beltway from the cars and the noise.

The toxic chemicals are another matter.

The woods, which border Rock Creek Park and are part of the Forest  
Glen annex of the old Walter Reed Army Medical Center, were used  
during and after World War II as a landfill for medical waste.

Discarded scalpels and syringes have been unearthed near the running  
trail by Army contractors, who have also found more than 30 chemicals  
above EPA safety levels in the soil, groundwater and stream, making  
its orange-tinted water potentially hazardous to pets and people.

Despite the contamination, some nearby residents don’t want the Army  
to fence off the area during any cleanup, saying they can live with  
whatever threat the buried waste poses.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/access-to-silver-springs-forest- 
glen-during-toxic-chemical-cleanup-worries-neighbors/2013/06/25/ 
abd714e8-d2dc-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

See also http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/hazardous-sites-at-the- 
forest-glen-annex/2013/06/25/b5c3433a-ddf1-11e2-b797- 
cbd4cb13f9c6_graphic.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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