Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During the WW I period the Army burried munitions and other toxic substances on vacant land within a 1 mile radius of American University. Spring Valley may be focal point, but I read that the Cathedral Commons construction on Wisconsin Ave. was delayed for a time because to remove hazardous waste in the ground.

Link? I have never heard that and there is no mention of Cathedral Commons area in the Army Corps of Engineers documents.

I thought it was oil and dry cleaning chemicals in the soil, it was cleaned up. No munitions.

Maybe it was just the remnants of the rotten fish and produce that Giant sold. They were toxic and lethal enough!

we owned a home there while I was pregnant with my son. I drank the water, used it for my son's formula, he bathed in it.....he has several developmental delays related to learning and attention. i have NO idea with there is a correlation but I often wonder about it. I guess I should have been alarmed with DC Water gave away free water filters to everyone in the neighborhood.

Here's the link to the NEW Johns Hopkins study on Spring Valley. Results are due: Spring 2013.

http://www.jhsph.edu/offices-and-services/practice-and-training/projects/community-health-survey.html

We just bought in Forest Hills, though we loved a house in Spring Valley and would have purchased it over the one we finally settled on. We were so close until I did research and I agree with the pps who said even if there's a remote chance of contamination, it's still too much.

DH wasn't as concerned, btw. He was more alarmed by the prospect of Hopkins study and the fact that it might negatively affect home values. That was really the only deterrent for him.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During the WW I period the Army burried munitions and other toxic substances on vacant land within a 1 mile radius of American University. Spring Valley may be focal point, but I read that the Cathedral Commons construction on Wisconsin Ave. was delayed for a time because to remove hazardous waste in the ground.

Link? I have never heard that and there is no mention of Cathedral Commons area in the Army Corps of Engineers documents.

I thought it was oil and dry cleaning chemicals in the soil, it was cleaned up. No munitions.

Anonymous wrote:During the WW I period the Army burried munitions and other toxic substances on vacant land within a 1 mile radius of American University. Spring Valley may be focal point, but I read that the Cathedral Commons construction on Wisconsin Ave. was delayed for a time because to remove hazardous waste in the ground.

Link? I have never heard that and there is no mention of Cathedral Commons area in the Army Corps of Engineers documents.

During the WW I period the Army burried munitions and other toxic substances on vacant land within a 1 mile radius of American University. Spring Valley may be focal point, but I read that the Cathedral Commons construction on Wisconsin Ave. was delayed for a time because to remove hazardous waste in the ground.

Anonymous wrote:

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

Jealousy is bad, cruelty is worse.

Wagshalls pricing is even worse. Robbers!

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

Jealousy is bad, cruelty is worse.

I love Spring Valley and would have bought a house there in a second if it weren't for the soil issues. I have many friends who grew up in the neighborhood and won't live there now b/c they know/knew too many people in the neighborhood with cancer. If there is even a tiny risk of danger, why take that chance with your family when there are many other nice neighborhoods in the area (Wesley Heights, Cleveland Park, AU Park, Chevy Chase).

Curious - has the recent Washingtonian article about the toxic soil, generational health problems, home demolitions,etc changed anyone's opinion about SV. Some on this thread were so skeptical about these dangers. Has reading this article impacted anyone?

Ah yes, correlation causation, call the media, appeal to emotion, insult others, repeat.

Anonymous wrote:yeah, just take a look at the 70+ years of MUTANTS pouring out of Spring Valley. EEEK. Avoid Mann school too, DOUBLE EEK.

gosh, so glad this topic pops up every year. reminds me of my portland, OR days and the people I'd run into during the grunge days....

I think you are just uninformed, but your statements are terribly disrespectful to the families of kids in that neighborhood who have developed brain tumors or other brain-related conditions. Pretty sick.

yeah, just take a look at the 70+ years of MUTANTS pouring out of Spring Valley. EEEK. Avoid Mann school too, DOUBLE EEK.

gosh, so glad this topic pops up every year. reminds me of my portland, OR days and the people I'd run into during the grunge days....

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

You mean "take out lunch from Wagshals of AU Park." (Last time I was there, it wasn't eat in.) And next time I'm there and there's some pretentious, pushy person trying to cut in front of me at the deli counter, I will assume it is a writer like you.