2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 30 Oct 2007 18:28:54 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Spring Valley (DC) burial pit
 
Army Digging To Recover Old Gas Shells

By Steve Vogel
Washington Post (DC)
October 30, 2007

Operating under tight safety restrictions, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday began excavating what it calls the "last known burial pit" of World War I chemical munitions in Northwest Washington's Spring Valley neighborhood.

The Army expects to excavate at least fifteen 75mm artillery rounds -- a dozen or more with mustard gas and three with arsine, both toxic chemical agents -- buried in the affluent residential neighborhood that was once a site for developing and testing chemical weapons.

To protect the neighborhood from an accidental release of gases, the Army has erected a large metal containment structure over the pit in the 4800 block of Glenbrook Road, next to an unoccupied home behind American University.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/29/AR2007102901923.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

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Lenny Siegel
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