[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FORMER SITES: 91 Spring Valley, DC homes face screening

[Lenny Siegel]

Exclusive: 91 homes in DC face testing for WWI chemical weapon remnants


By Neal Augenstein
WTOP News (Washington, DC)
March 9, 2018 

WASHINGTON — Almost 100 of D.C.’s most expensive homes will soon be screened for remnants of chemical weapons which were test-fired during World War I, WTOP has learned.

Letters have been sent to 91 homeowners in the Spring Valley neighborhood, providing details of how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will inspect their properties, as part of the decades-long cleanup of the World War I chemical weapons testing site on the grounds of American University.

During World War I, about 661 acres in the Northwest section of D.C. were used by the U.S. government for research and testing of chemical agents, equipment and munitions.

At the time, munitions were test fired from what the Army Corps calls the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site.

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For the entire story, see
https://wtop.com/dc/2018/03/exclusive-91-homes-dc-face-testing-wwi-chemical-weapon-fallout/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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