[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: "WWI shell found in Fort Totten [DC] was chemical weapon, prequel to massive Spring Valley cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

WWI shell found in Fort Totten was chemical weapon, prequel to massive Spring Valley cleanup

by Neal Augenstein 
WTOP TV News (Washington, DC)
February 9, 2022

A World War I-era unexploded shell discovered in July 2020 by the National Park Service during construction of a trail through Northeast D.C.’s Fort Totten could be a prequel to the decadeslong cleanup of a former World War I chemical weapons site near American University’s campus.

The type of weapon recovered and the history of where it was recovered have suggested a link between the discovery in Ward 5’s Fort Totten and Ward 3’s Spring Valley cleanup at the former American University Experiment Station used by the U.S. government for research and testing of chemical agents, equipment and munitions — once dubbed the “mother of all toxic dumps.”

In response to WTOP’s reporting, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she will be calling a joint meeting of the park service, the Army Corps of Engineers and Metro to discuss the issue of the chemical weapon and what should be done about it.

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For the entire article, see
https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/wwi-shell-found-in-fort-totten-was-chemical-weapon-prequel-to-massive-spring-valley-cleanup/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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