American University Experiment Station

Bancroft WD. Bancroft s History of the Chemical Warfare Service in the United States. Washington, DC Research Division, Chemical Warfare Service, American University Experiment Station May 1919 12, 16. 

Hunt R. Ricin. Washington, DC American University Experiment Station 1918 107-117. Chemical Warfare Monograph 37. 

Gordon MK, Sude BR, Overveck RA. Chemical testing in the Great War The American University experiment station. Washington Hist. 1994 6 25 45, 106-107. 

Historical documents can provide clues to where burials or contamination are likely. Most of the experiments at the American University Experiment Station (AUES) were recorded and often included a diagram. For example, if there were only two or three sets of circular trenches and if the experiment shows a circular trench, this narrows down the location where it occurred. If the experiment indicates that two shells did not fire, one can conclude that there may be a burial site for UXO near the trenches. Historical documents may suggest what contamination to include in a search. 

CASE STUDY THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENT STATION (AUES) A FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITE... 

A History of the American University Experiment Station (AUES) Site... 

POl 19, the Old Mustard Field, was presumably taken from the map dated July 1918 entitled, Reservation American University Experiment Station Research Division of the Chemical Warfare Service (AUES). On the map, this field is shown as being approximately 510 ft by 360 ft. On the POI map, it is shown as slightly smaller, about 470 ft by 330 ft, give or take a few feet. Because July 1,1918 was the date of the formation of the Chemical Warfare Service, this map may have been hastily commissioned by the newly created service. 

This request was necessary due to the unusual nature of the timeline. A delay of a year and three months from sample collection to validated results is unusual, even for the AUES. Another delay of eight more months until the regulators and at least one property owner were notified is another inexplicable circumstance. Finally, the Report states in the first sentence, In accordance with the revised Final Work Management Plan for Follow-on Sampling for OU-4 Residential Lots, Amendment 2 (Parsons, April 2001), Parsons (a leading environmental remediation firm) collected soil samples from four OU-4 residences to assess for the presence of the American University Experiment Station (AUES) list of chemicals. The District must know how samples collected in February 2001 could be in accordance with a plan amended in April 2001. 

Final Report on the World War I Poison Gas Production at the American University Experiment Station, District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs by Richard D. Albright (1996)... 

Evidence Supporting the Potential for Finding Buried Munitions During Excavation at Operable Unit 3 of the American University Experiment Station, DC Environmental Health Administration, 1998. 

Many people contributed to my success with the American University Experiment Station (AUES), or Spring Valley, and thereby indirectly to this book. This list is in a time sequence of some of the main players. 

Hunt, R., 1918. Ricin Chemical Warfare Monograph, vol. 37. American University Experiment Station, Washington, DC, pp. 107-117. 

A. C. Rolls, H. A. Kuhn and A. J. Todd, Report on toxicity tests on mice, report no. 33, in Pharmacological and Research Section Monographs, ed. E. K. Marshall, War Department CWS, Research Division, American University Experiment Station, Washington, DC, 1917. 

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