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After the MARB results determined that the munition of concern is an explosively configured 75 mm chemical projectile with an arsine fill, the Corps submitted a Chemical Safety Submission amendment to the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board. The Board approved the amendment on January 18. The amendment requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to place an air filtration unit on the Interim Holding Facility ...
USACE News Release
Spring Valley FUDS
January 3, 2008
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is storing World War I chemical weapons excavated from the nearby Spring Valley community inside this tent-like structure with the long air filtration unit. Contaminated soil is stored inside the blue barrels. This land is just north of Sibley Hospital and on the east side of Dalecarlia Reservoir. Dalecarlia Parkway is visible 310 feet away through the trees in back.
U.S. government property surrounding Dalecarlia Reservoir where the Army Corps of Engineers is keeping chemical weapons that are unearthed from munitions "Pit 3" in the Spring Valley neighborhood one mile east of the four-lane parkway.
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"Three weeks into the dig, ordnance experts found a unique shell that wasn't planned for and stopped all work ..."
Melanie Alnwick
Fox 5 News
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abruptly stopped its chemical munitions dig at a Spring Valley home on Monday after unearthing an artillery shell that may be both explosive and armed with a deadly chemical ... An Army Corps official said Tuesday that the discovery of the shell, which occurred on November 19, could force the Corps to revise its safety plan for the neighborhood.
The Northwest Current (December 12, 2007: pg. 1)
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is storing World War I chemical weapons excavated from the nearby Spring Valley community inside this tent-like structure with the long air filtration unit. Contaminated soil is stored inside the blue barrels. This land is just north of Sibley Hospital and on the east side of Dalecarlia Reservoir. Dalecarlia Parkway is visible 310 feet away through the trees in back.
U.S. government property surrounding Dalecarlia Reservoir where the Army Corps of Engineers is keeping chemical weapons that are unearthed from munitions "Pit 3" in the Spring Valley neighborhood one mile east of the four-lane parkway.
"One of the challenges certainly is that we don't know all the areas where munitions were buried. We've done extensive searching into the records, but it was kind of 'out of sight, out of mind' back then [in 1918] ..."a.jpg)
"Three weeks into the dig, ordnance experts found a unique shell that wasn't planned for and stopped all work ...".jpg)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abruptly stopped its chemical munitions dig at a Spring Valley home on Monday after unearthing an artillery shell that may be both explosive and armed with a deadly chemical ... An Army Corps official said Tuesday that the discovery of the shell, which occurred on November 19, could force the Corps to revise its safety plan for the neighborhood.
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