[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, PERCHLORATE: Spring Valley (DC) investigation continues near AU's Kreeger Building

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps uncovers Civil War-era artifacts near Kreeger building

By Ryan Migeed
American University Eagle (DC)
February 7, 2012

The Army Corps of Engineers found Civil War-era relics, including a  
piece of a cannon, while looking for chemical munitions and testing  
the groundwater near the Kreeger Building over winter break.

"We're looking for buried metallic objects we call anomalies," said  
Clem Gaines, public affairs specialist at the Army Corps of Engineers  
in Baltimore.

The Army Corps used metal detectors to find burial sites where the  
Army discarded materials used when AU was an "experimental station,"  
Gaines said.

Army Corps planned to investigate about 18 sites. The Corps  
investigated most of them by January and will investigate four more  
sites in March, Gaines said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/army-corps-uncovers-civil- 
war-era-artifacts-near-kreeger-building/

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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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