My kids and dog played in that creek behind mclean gardens too! years ago! I worried a bit then… the water was coppery.

Follow the topography.

Anonymous wrote:Bethesdump!

This Bethesdump troll is all over the real estate forum

What I also find very disturbing is that the soil excavated when they developed Spring Valley could have been taken anywhere, and people would be oblivious to its issues.

Most of AU Park was farmland during WWI, I believe north of Yuma or Alton. There are aerial photos showing what was happening in different parts of the neighborhood. In the southern portion of the neighborhood, there wasn’t testing, just an army camp. They did find and remediate some arsenic in the soil at some homes in the area, but they don’t know if it was caused by the testing or other typical causes. Anyplace north is fine - no testing occurred, normal soil samples, and the groundwater and underground streams are at a higher elevation than where the testing occurred.

Anonymous wrote:Bethesdump!

Is this a new term for you? You're using it everywhere on this forum.

Anonymous wrote:Christ, when you look at this map (linked upthread) McLean Gardens is really close to this. There's a creek behind McLean Gardens. near a playground where I used to take my daughter when she was tiny, to skip rocks. And, yet there were no signs. We were cautious because you know, urban streams, and all. But I am now kicking myself.

It’s all so scary but it looks like the issues are on AU and then downhill from there. But to your point, I wonder how far outside the area they tested, it at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Never understood the obsession with AU Park. Just 5 minutes away you get great schools, better government, and better amenities in Bethesda -- all at comparable (and maybe even cheaper) prices. Is it just that people want the DC address?

What a profoundly stupid take. Maryland has a higher tax burden than DC, and the housing prices aren't that much cheaper unless you're looking at that dumpy part off River Road that's full of teardown s---hacks. The neighborhood schools are comparable (and don't give me that BCC crap, it has the same problems as J-R). And you're really going to say the MoCo government is at all better than DC? Yikes.

Ummmm…. Yes? DC government is notoriously dysfunctional.

Christ, when you look at this map (linked upthread) McLean Gardens is really close to this. There's a creek behind McLean Gardens. near a playground where I used to take my daughter when she was tiny, to skip rocks. And, yet there were no signs. We were cautious because you know, urban streams, and all. But I am now kicking myself.

Bethesdump!

Anonymous wrote:Never understood the obsession with AU Park. Just 5 minutes away you get great schools, better government, and better amenities in Bethesda -- all at comparable (and maybe even cheaper) prices. Is it just that people want the DC address?

What a profoundly stupid take. Maryland has a higher tax burden than DC, and the housing prices aren't that much cheaper unless you're looking at that dumpy part off River Road that's full of teardown s---hacks. The neighborhood schools are comparable (and don't give me that BCC crap, it has the same problems as J-R). And you're really going to say the MoCo government is at all better than DC? Yikes.

Take the topography map of the Spring Valley above and see how the ground slopes. For example, I might not buy donwland from Spring Valley towards Delacarlia.

For more, here are the wells monitored, and an article on DC's buried creeks and the interactive map link which lets you zero in on your neighborhood. I remember seeing someplace a Spring Valley map with groundwater paths but can't find it. Used it during househunting; may have been a topo map. Ending up buying upland and away from all that FWIW for a number of reasons. Everyone can weigh their own risk but if worried plenty of nice areas away from all those hazards like Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, Forest Hills, Crestwood

https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/SpringValley/EU2_Arsenic_perchlorate_concentrations_11x17.pdf?ver=2018-11-14-110717-920

https://dcist.com/story/21/08/16/dc-streams-have-disappeared-where-did-they-go/

https://www.hiddenhydrology.org/category/city/washington-dc/

I would filter all the Delacarlia water too. Find a pitcher or system that filters out PFAS/PFOAS. That should do it. EWG has a list