[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, CHEMWEAPONS: "No End in Sight for Spring Valley [DC] Military Debris Removal Project"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No End in Sight for Spring Valley Military Debris Removal Project
Eleven years after the project began, the Army is still digging up  
toxic waste in the neighborhood.

By Harry Jaffe
Washingtonian (DC)
January 16, 2014

On Monday workmen unearthed another crusty munition from its current  
excavation of the toxic-waste site on Glenbrook Road, a stone’s throw  
from the American University campus. The fourth such find pulled from  
the ground in tony Spring Valley since September, the artifact turned  
out to be a 75-millimeter shrapnel round buried when the Army  
abandoned a experimental warfare station after World War I.

The Army Corps of Engineers immediately shut down the Glenbrook Road  
operation, transported the bomb to a secure site behind Sibley  
Memorial Hospital, and checked it for explosives.

"The fill was determined to be a riot-control agent that was used  
during World War I," the Corps announced Wednesday, saying that it  
"poses no danger to the workers or community."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/no-end- 
in-sight-for-spring-valley-military-debris-removal-project.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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