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Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

You don't understand much. Afraid of your own shadow, as well? The imagined SV bogeyman has driven prices upward at nearby AU Park- like sheep to the slaughter buyers are shunning SV for AU Park. Fools.

If it helps you to sleep at night, great, we'll pretend Spring Valley is safe. There, do you feel better??

I put my family first. If in any way there could be a soil issue, I choose not to live there. Having said that, I think people in certain local zip codes are way healthier than most regions of the us so any risk is certainly mitigated by healthy behaviours and choices, education and access to care unlike many other areas.

But you know how realtors always blow sunshine? Our realtors told us they'd never live there again- they'd never been so sick in their lives; even their dogs were sick and having skin/fur problems-but they otherwise loved the area and just aren't willing to take the risk for themselves. Anecdotal? Totally. But why chance being wrong?

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

You don't understand much. Afraid of your own shadow, as well? The imagined SV bogeyman has driven prices upward at nearby AU Park- like sheep to the slaughter buyers are shunning SV for AU Park. Fools.

...In September of 2005 ATSDR issued a Health Consultation for the Spring Valley Site. ATSDR recommended additional sampling of soil, groundwater and air in specific locations within the Spring Valley Site. The DC Council approved funding for a health study and a contract was awarded to Johns Hopkins for that study, and a report was released in 2007. The report concludes that the health of Spring Valley residents is good; better than National averages and consistent with a reference community with similar demographics. Additional DC funding has been provided for follow-on work by Hopkins.

OF COURSE THE HEALTH OF THOSE WHO LIVE THERE WERE FOUND TO BE "FINE". CAN YOU IMAGINE THE UPROAR IF IT HADN'T BEEN????

http://www.epa.gov/reg3hwmd/npl/DCD983971136.htm

All identified arsenic removal actions have been completed. All geophysical surveys have been completed. Intrusive investigations continue at a single location on the American University, and will be completed in the Spring of 2012. Groundwater monitoring continues.

In May 2010 USACE destroyed five recovered chemical munitions. Approximately 75 conventional munitions were destroyed in a closed detonation chamber in the summer of 2010. All recovered munitions previously stored at the site have been destroyed. In February of 2012 2 additional conventional munitions were destroyed in the detonation chamber.

I love it when people who can't even afford to eat lunch at Wagshals come here to bash Spring Valley. Jealousy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

...says the contractor who after collecting $100million for soil remediation jobs in SV, has to continue to cry wolf to keep the money flowing. Spring Valley soil is far cleaner than the rest of America's residential areas. I lived there for more than a decade recently, frequently spoke with neighbors. The SV toxic soil propaganda is virtually a myth.

NP here. If SV is so awesome, why is Johns Hopkins doing a cancer study there? I think SV is the toxic waste side of town!

from a 2007 Johns Hopkins study:
"For the cancer mortality data comparing Spring Valley and Chevy Chase, the data over the two time periods does not show a consistent pattern. In the 1994 – 1999 period, the cancer mortality rates in Spring Valley are lower than those of Chevy Chase. In the later period, however, bladder, kidney and renal pelvis, liver and intrahepatic bile duct, lung and bronchus, lymphoma and skin cancer mortality rates are higher in Spring Valley. Many of the mortality rates in both time periods are based on very few cases and are therefore likely to be highly variable. When compared with the US mortality rates in the white population and overall, Spring Valley is consistently lower."

Much ado about nothing, imho.

more from the hopkins 2007 study:
"Findings: Community Health Assessment
• Overall, Spring Valley is a healthy community. Crude mortality rates are lower than those of the Chevy Chase comparison community and 20 to 70% lower than the US rates for 11 of the top 15 causes of death in the nation.
• Essential hypertension and related kidney disease, the 13th most common cause of death, is the only Spring Valley mortality rate that exceeded those of Chevy Chase and the US.
• Similarly, the Spring Valley age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates for selected cancers of concern (bladder, kidney and renal pelvis, leukemias, liver and intrahepatic bile duct, lung and bronchus, lymphomas, and skin) are 20 to 80% lower or, for skin cancer in recent years (2000-2004) the same as rates for the US overall.
• The comparison of Spring Valley cancer incidence data to Chevy Chase for both time periods shows a pattern of slightly higher rates for cancers known to be associated with arsenic exposure, kidney and renal pelvis, lung and bronchus, skin, and bladder (2000- 2004 period only). This pattern is also found in the mortality data comparison for the 2000 – 2004 period. This finding should be interpreted with caution since the numbers of cases and deaths are low and rates calculated are likely to be highly variable. (When the number of events [cases or deaths] is low a single event will cause a large change in the rate, leading to variability in the rate over time.)"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

...says the contractor who after collecting $100million for soil remediation jobs in SV, has to continue to cry wolf to keep the money flowing. Spring Valley soil is far cleaner than the rest of America's residential areas. I lived there for more than a decade recently, frequently spoke with neighbors. The SV toxic soil propaganda is virtually a myth.

NP here. If SV is so awesome, why is Johns Hopkins doing a cancer study there? I think SV is the toxic waste side of town!

from a 2007 Johns Hopkins study:
"For the cancer mortality data comparing Spring Valley and Chevy Chase, the data over the two time periods does not show a consistent pattern. In the 1994 – 1999 period, the cancer mortality rates in Spring Valley are lower than those of Chevy Chase. In the later period, however, bladder, kidney and renal pelvis, liver and intrahepatic bile duct, lung and bronchus, lymphoma and skin cancer mortality rates are higher in Spring Valley. Many of the mortality rates in both time periods are based on very few cases and are therefore likely to be highly variable. When compared with the US mortality rates in the white population and overall, Spring Valley is consistently lower."

Much ado about nothing, imho.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

...says the contractor who after collecting $100million for soil remediation jobs in SV, has to continue to cry wolf to keep the money flowing. Spring Valley soil is far cleaner than the rest of America's residential areas. I lived there for more than a decade recently, frequently spoke with neighbors. The SV toxic soil propaganda is virtually a myth.

NP here. If SV is so awesome, why is Johns Hopkins doing a cancer study there? I think SV is the toxic waste side of town!

Hopkins doing a study??? Please cite your source, thank you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

...says the contractor who after collecting $100million for soil remediation jobs in SV, has to continue to cry wolf to keep the money flowing. Spring Valley soil is far cleaner than the rest of America's residential areas. I lived there for more than a decade recently, frequently spoke with neighbors. The SV toxic soil propaganda is virtually a myth.

NP here. If SV is so awesome, why is Johns Hopkins doing a cancer study there? I think SV is the toxic waste side of town!

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

...says the contractor who after collecting $100million for soil remediation jobs in SV, has to continue to cry wolf to keep the money flowing. Spring Valley soil is far cleaner than the rest of America's residential areas. I lived there for more than a decade recently, frequently spoke with neighbors. The SV toxic soil propaganda is virtually a myth.

Unsafe, toxic waste dump. That's what Spring Valley is unfortunately. I cannot understand why anyone would ever buy a house there.

Ooh -- all brick!

This has been going on for years. What's your point? Did an old bomb explode?