The Army Corps of Engineers recovered five more broken glass bottlenecks at its 4825 Glenbrook Rd. investigation, bringing the total to eight bottlenecks found in the last month, according to the Corps’ Spring Valley project manager Dan Noble.

Spring Valley residents questioned the Army Corps’ recently announced findings regarding anion levels in local drinking water sources.

Three broken glass jugs emerged during a dig conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers on Monday, Jan. 25, according to a Corps spokesman. Based on old photographs of similar jugs, some suspect that these may have contained a chemical agent called mustard, according to environmental specialist Richard Albright.

AU’s Community and Local Government Relations office started a new program to satisfy students’ cravings for home-cooked meals in the homes of Spring Valley residents.

The Army Corps of Engineers unearthed more munitions debris next to the Public Safety building during this winter break.

A film by Jennifer Taylor illuminates a “clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West in post-9/11 America and provides a unique look into the life of the young Puerto Rican-American rapper, whose conversion to Islam leads him down some very unconventional paths as he struggles to better himself and his community through his faith and his music.

The playground at AU’s Child Development Center will be open again after arsenic was found in the soil eight years ago.

President Neil Kerwin and his wife are in the process of moving back into their 4835 Glenbrook Rd. home, AU’s Director of Community and Local Government Relations Penny Pagano said during a Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board meeting Tuesday night.

The Army Corps cleanup of the Spring Valley neighborhood is a matter of national importance, and the U.S. government has an “undisputed responsibility,” U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said at a town hall meeting Tuesday night in Mary Graydon Center.

On Saturday, EcoSense members on a tour of AU and the surrounding neighborhood learned how, after 16 years of digging for WWI-era munitions, much work still remains for the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Army Corps of Engineers wrapped up the last of seven trench investigations at three new locations on campus Thursday morning, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Military Response Program Manager Dan Noble said Thursday.

Trench investigations for dangerous materials are scheduled to start next week at three locations within AU, in order to investigate the whereabouts of chemicals from World War I, the project manager of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military response program said during a meeting of the Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board Tuesday, Sept. 8.