Here's the offical map. Spillover possible. https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/SpringValley/Appx%20A_ALL%20FIGURES.pdf |
| Note how the map neatly follows the administrative borders. Like, really? |
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The map, but there could be spillovers
https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/SpringValley/Appx%20A_ALL%20FIGURES.pdf |
Wait are American University and the Department of Homeland Security in that map? They are potentially contaminated? It’s not just houses? |
| They totally are. They had to rip up the playground. What?! How is this still a secret? |
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Wow. Pages 7-10 show a pretty conservative (based on the narrow fab range) estimate of how far the toxins were fired into the Westmoreland Hills.
This entire thing is based on the 1918 maps; no one in fact knows for sure. I personally have no trust that the contamination would stay within neatly drawn street-based boundaries of the streets built decades after the fact. Safest to draw a big margin. |
What playground? |
| Apparently someone fainted in the Sibley elevator shaft and they had to clean that up. The sump is contaminated with perchlorate. All in the reports. |
It looks like DHS is just outside the red outline on the map, but I find that curious. |
On AU campus I think. This blog and folks running it have lots of information http://wmdindc.blogspot.com/ |
| We looked at Spring Valley but ran away. They have been remediating for decades. |
| Apparently there was something at Catholic U as well and a bunch of lewisite was dumped into the Chesapeake Bay |
The contamination, if any, at AU or DHS would be from spent shells which is far less serious. Things were set up so that they shot everything to the west across the valley towards the reservoir. It was also down in that area where they tied up the goats (etc) next to the chemicals and the shells. Finally, west of AU is where they dumped and buried the excess chemicals. They did not shoot to the east because there were a few horse farms and other occupied areas that way. |
Hardly. It's as liberal as it gets |