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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JKLMs aren't really a thing anymore. Lots of elementary schools in DC are great now. [/quote]

Dream on.  Sorry that you can't afford to buy in AU Park.  But you can pretend.[/quote]

You're gross and, honestly, the reason we didn't consider AU Park. That and the buried toxic waste nearby.

--Sitting here crying in my million dollar house. [/quote]

I agree with the first part of your statement, but the latter part makes you sound a little crazy. So you wouldn't buy in any neighborhood near (but outside of) Spring Valley?[/quote]

A lot of people feel that way. Part of the FUDS is in AU Park and given all the changing info over the years, plenty of people are uncomfortable looking too close to the boundary. [/quote]

The boundaries have never been adjusted though, and most of AU Park was never owned by AU and already residentially developed by the time the Army used the FUDS for testing. Look into the history. [b]If you shun AU Park (except for the small part that was part of the FUDS) for fear of FUDS proximity, you need to equally shun all other adjacent neighborhoods.[/b][/quote]

Plenty of people do this too. Honestly, it's going to be a nonissue for most AU Park residents (and others in adjacent neighborhoods), but for us the huge investment and the potential for health risks made it easy to skip that part of town. Might be an overreaction but I know a lot of others who felt similarly. [/quote]

Yes, it's an overreaction. I have spent time looking into this issue and would NEVER buy on the FUDS, but I have zero concerns about a neighborhood that was already built up residentially and marketed to buyers well before WWI, especially one located uphill from Spring Valley like AU Park. I agree there is a lot of uncertainty about the degree and distribution of contamination on the FUDS (including that southern part of AU Park), but there has never been uncertainty about which land AU owned and allowed the Army to use. [b]It takes magical thinking to believe that the soil contamination of SV would somehow contaminate nearby neighborhoods, be it AU Park, Wesley Heights, or the Palisades[/b].[/quote]

I actually wouldn't worry about AU Park, but it's hardly "magical thinking" to think that soil contamination can spread...Construction on contaminated sites + wind = most obvious mechanism. (Think about the studies that show that the presence of a nearby construction site raises the risk of infant botulism). But the type of soil matters too; certain contaminants flow easily through sandy soils, for instance.[/quote]

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