Geophysical investigation work in the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site being done as part of the Site-Wide Remedial Action
A Manned Portable Vector is used during geophysical surveying efforts at a home in the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site February 12, 2019 as part of the Site-Wide Remedial Action approved for the FUDS. The surveying is part of an effort to identify metallic anomalies below the surface that could be munitions left in the ground as a result of military activity in the area during World War I. The MPV equipment is helps determine whether buried metallic anomalies are munitions items or cultural debris that does not need to be removed.