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To: La Lydia

Used to be stored at Dugaway Proving Grounds. Most met the incinerator at Anniston.


5 posted on 12/29/2009 10:57:36 AM PST by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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"The Pueblo Chemical Depot’s mission is to ensure safe storage for part of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile. The site, located about 14 miles east of Pueblo, Colorado, has been safely storing chemical weapons since the 1950s. The depot has 780,078 weapons with about 2,611 tons of mustard, a blister agent. This represents about 8.5 percent of the original U.S. chemical weapons stockpile. Pueblo Chemical Depot has 922 storage igloos, though only 102 store chemical weapons. Through the Reuse Authority in Pueblo, some of the empty igloos can be leased...

"The Chemical Munitions Storage Area is located along the northern boundary of PCD within the Chemical Demilitarization reuse area. Mustard chemical munitions are stored in above the ground surface, concrete, and earth-covered igloos. The munitions were first stored in C-Block igloos and moved to G-Block in 1979. Munitions are inspected regularly...

"The Army currently is assessing viable technologies other than incineration to dispose of chemical weapons at Pueblo. Until this assessment is complete, the Army’s plans to construct an incinerator at Pueblo are on hold. The facility will destroy 8.5% of the nation's original chemical stockpile including Mustard agent in projectiles and mortars. The decision about which technology will be used to dispose of Pueblo's stockpile of chemical weapons has not been made, but the path of the two Environmental Impact Statements will lead the Army to that ultimate decision...."

7 posted on 12/29/2009 11:07:08 AM PST by La Lydia
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