Connecticut Avenue is not 24/7 traffic, it is actually a fabulous thoroughfare that opens additional lanes to accommodate rush hour. Not to mention that there are numerous alternative routes to the main thoroughfares, so you can avoid traffic if desired. All neighborhoods in NW have traffic issues on main thoroughfares and no neighborhood is immune. On the west side of NW you have Mass Ave, Foxhall, MacArthur, Loughborough, Nebraska, etc. No one is immune, but only Connecticut opens additional lanes. Not to mention that when you are in Chevy Chase, DC you are close to all shopping and no traffic - everything is in your neighborhood or an adjacent one. Other NW neighborhoods do not have this luxury - you have to drive several miles to get shopping done.

Anonymous wrote:To the poster (14:40) who said people live in Spring Valley for the large lots, trees, quite streets, crime free, and access to private schools and country clubs, have you ever heard of Chevy Chase and Barnaby Woods? Both neighborhoods have all that you mentioned above and are walkable/bikeable to country clubs (i.e. even closer). You are also arguably closer to downtown with easy access through Rock Creek Park or 16th street. In addition to all the attractions you listed above, and more importantly, you don't have the risk of a munitions dump in your backyard. Just saying, seems like a no brainer for me.

I love the 24/7 traffic jam that is Conn Ave and Wisconsin Ave

Anonymous wrote:There's what they KNOW, and there's what they have yet to discover. That kept us from looking at either SV or AU Park. Without the uncertainty I would expect the prices to be substantially higher.

the prices are high. same quality interior, size of house and acreage in Spring Valley as Foxhall, Woodley Park, etc. Run the comps yourself on Redfin.

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line, don't buy in Spring Valley or parts of AU Park. Instead look at Chevy Chase, DC and Barnaby Woods. All the benefits (and more) with no munitions issue.

yes please don't buy there. also please avoid GMO, keep your own chickens and grow your own fruit and veg.

Dear drama queens: wonder what Suburban Hospital has to say about it, given they are smack in the middle of it.

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Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that people still buy in those areas (Spring Valley and AU Park) even after all the info we have on the munitions.

You have to love those who shop for organic goods at Whole Foods, but buy their family home and raise their kids on a munitions dump. There are lots of other nice options without the risk, Chevy Chase, Barnaby Woods, Forest Hills, Cleveland Park, Kent, Wesley Heights, etc.

Why to you keep trying to implicate AU Park, outside of the small area that was part of the FUDS? Most of AU Park is not former AU property and no more suspicious or risky than Wesley Heights, Kent, the Palisades, and other neighborhoods bordering the FUDS. I am as creeped out as anyone by the thought of living on the FUDS, but most of AU Park was not part of it. Look at the USACE map for the borders.

Wesley Heights does not border on the FUDS. AU does. No alternative facts here please.

Of course it does:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wesley+Heights,+Washington,+DC/@38.9306607,-77.0973548,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b61d05ae1b21:0xeead6d9817dc63d4!8m2!3d38.9289785!4d-77.0895421

http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/SpringValley/Overview%20Map%20Geophys%20-%20Public.pdf

In fact, the very northern edge of Wesley Heights was even part of the FUDS according to these maps. Please check your facts before accusing others of dispensing misleading information.

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Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that people still buy in those areas (Spring Valley and AU Park) even after all the info we have on the munitions.

You have to love those who shop for organic goods at Whole Foods, but buy their family home and raise their kids on a munitions dump. There are lots of other nice options without the risk, Chevy Chase, Barnaby Woods, Forest Hills, Cleveland Park, Kent, Wesley Heights, etc.

Why to you keep trying to implicate AU Park, outside of the small area that was part of the FUDS? Most of AU Park is not former AU property and no more suspicious or risky than Wesley Heights, Kent, the Palisades, and other neighborhoods bordering the FUDS. I am as creeped out as anyone by the thought of living on the FUDS, but most of AU Park was not part of it. Look at the USACE map for the borders.

Wesley Heights does not border on the FUDS. AU does. No alternative facts here please.

Idc why ppl live there. Not my millions.

Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that people still buy in those areas (Spring Valley and AU Park) even after all the info we have on the munitions.

You have to love those who shop for organic goods at Whole Foods, but buy their family home and raise their kids on a munitions dump. There are lots of other nice options without the risk, Chevy Chase, Barnaby Woods, Forest Hills, Cleveland Park, Kent, Wesley Heights, etc.

Why to you keep trying to implicate AU Park, outside of the small area that was part of the FUDS? Most of AU Park is not former AU property and no more suspicious or risky than Wesley Heights, Kent, the Palisades, and other neighborhoods bordering the FUDS. I am as creeped out as anyone by the thought of living on the FUDS, but most of AU Park was not part of it. Look at the USACE map for the borders.

What's crazy is that people still buy in those areas (Spring Valley and AU Park) even after all the info we have on the munitions.

You have to love those who shop for organic goods at Whole Foods, but buy their family home and raise their kids on a munitions dump. There are lots of other nice options without the risk, Chevy Chase, Barnaby Woods, Forest Hills, Cleveland Park, Kent, Wesley Heights, etc.

Craziest thread ever on DCUM.

Bottom line, don't buy in Spring Valley or parts of AU Park. Instead look at Chevy Chase, DC and Barnaby Woods. All the benefits (and more) with no munitions issue.

Anonymous wrote:And one most hope that no lazy private dumped stuff around the perimeter or a mortar went astray. Have they tested the soil in any of the AU park locations?

i would think anything that was on the surface of the soil 100 years ago is long gone at this point, due to rain, erosion, passage of time, etc. it's the stuff that's buried that is worrisome--since if it's been preserved in glass containers underground then it's still there are could be leaking out slowly, etc.

Anonymous wrote:There's what they KNOW, and there's what they have yet to discover. That kept us from looking at either SV or AU Park. Without the uncertainty I would expect the prices to be substantially higher.

Why are you concerned about AU Park outside of the FUDS? I personally wouldn't buy in SV, but I have no concerns looking in AU Park. It is no different than other nearby neighborhoods in this respect, like, say, the Palisades, directly on the other side of the FUDS. AU Park wasn't owned by AU and not commissioned to the military, and it was developed residentially much earlier. Truly curious why you would avoid it? Or are you avoiding anything nearby?

There's what they KNOW, and there's what they have yet to discover. That kept us from looking at either SV or AU Park. Without the uncertainty I would expect the prices to be substantially higher.