Spring Valley, Washington

U.S. Army. 2002a. Spring Valley, Washington, D.C., Project Overview, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District. Available at . 

There are major problems also in China, where Japanese forces abandoned chemical munitions in 1945. In the United States, the U.S. Army has surveyed its substantial non-stockpile chemical munitions problem.[l] One aspect of it came to light in 1993, when abandoned chemical munitions and precursor chemicals were found buried in Spring Valley, Washington, D.C., a district of expensive homes. During World War I it was a chemical weapons development site. 

The original EDS-1 proved its worth in a series of field operations in the continental United States. The sites included Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado (10 GB bomblets) Camp Sibert, Alabama (one CG mortar round) and Spring Valley in Washington, D.C. (15 mustard agent HD artillery rounds). One EDS-1 and two EDS-2s have been used in the ongoing project to destroy 1,220 recovered chemical munitions at Pine Bluff Arsenal (PBA), Arkansas, as described below. To update the history of EDS units, operations since 2004 are tabulated in Table 3-6. 

A resident of Spring Valley also told the District of Columbia that he found a live fuse in Dalecarlia as a child and that his father called the police, who confirmed that it was live and took it away. The Washington Times of July 29, 2003, also mentioned children finding shells. A resident said children used to hunt for shells along Murdock Mill Road. 

I first met Rich in February 2001.1 was in DC for a meeting, and a friend invited me to an Army Corps of Engineers-sponsored community meeting at Sibley Hospital, in the Spring Valley neighborhood in northwest Washington. This area, as Rich documents, contains a witches brew of old chemical warfare materiel, other hazardous substances, and unexploded ordnance left over from its days, during World War I, as the American University Experimental Station. 

In January 1993 CW (sulphur mustard) was discovered in the residential Washington, DC neighbourhood of Spring Valley. From 1917 to 1919 the United States Army conducted field testing of CW munitions on part of the campus of American University. Since 1993 several hundred CW munitions have been recovered. It is uncertain how many remain. In 2005 remediation work focused on an area near American University where ordnance related items and at least 15 sealed glass bottles were recovered. The bottles were found to contain suspected degradation products of sulphur mustard [11]. Clean-up operations were expected to cost approximately 165 million and continue until 2010 [12]. 

Levine S (2005) Spring Valley toxins report sounds rm almost all-clear, Washington Post, 20 Mar, p C03... 

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