Posted on 04/17/2015 11:53:58 AM PDT by RBW in PA
A police investigation has shut down a section of Route 15 bordering Picatinny Arsenal Friday afternoon, police said. As of 1:20 p.m., Route 15 between Route 80 and Berkshire Valley Road was closed due an ongoing investigation, township police said in a Nixle alert. Employees have also been sent home early from Picatinny Arsenal base, the New Jersey Herald reported. The eastbound and westbound ramps for Route 80 to Route 15 north were also closed as of 1:42 p.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. The DOT also reported delays of 20 to 25 minutes in the area. Motorists should plan an alternative route to avoid the area, police said. That section of Route 15 runs along the border and main entrance of Picatinny Arsenal.
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I like their rails...
Any chem bio at picatinny?
I been there a few times. I questioned some of the long timers there about BRAC and such. They said there is no way that it can close due to cleanup. There’s so much crap buried and spread around there and covered over it would take a couple of superfunds to clean it up.
They said some of that stuff goes way back 1880.
Ping.
http://thevane.gawker.com/july-10-1926-the-day-nature-blew-up-a-town-in-new-jer-1602586498
There’s one particular ammo bunker there that has nitro leftover from WWI last I heard.
They said there was a crapload of ammo dumped after WWII also.....
that would be a billion, 200 million pounds. I kind of doubt that.
Was down there once to help work on the elevator at the old drop tower.
The guy working the tower mentioned the fun possibilities brush fires provided.
We also had to fix a cargo elevator that some genius removed the door straps from.
I mentioned to the guy that he could “borrow” a crew safety strap off a Humvee, cut it down, and rivet it in place of the original.
Don’t know if he did or not.
My poor NJ friend. He takes all 3 of those roads when going home from work. 80W to 15N to Berkshire Valley road.
Suspicious car deemed ‘explosive threat’ at Picatinny, base evacuated
http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2015/04/picatinny_evacuation_authorities_investigating_pos.html
If so, then liquid nitro of that era would have long ago crystallized into a solid-— any little crystal— you hit it with anything— kaboom. A whole jar full— oh boy.
Check the article and photos at the link. It happened in that quantity. Debris blown 22 miles away.
Photos at the link, include hundreds of 14” naval gun rounds, without their detonators certainly but full of HE. Standing there taking the photo? Not me.
Other photos show multiple intact rounds laying around. 4” , 88mm equiv.
Oh yeah, it happened. Must have made a hell of a boom.
I wonder if that is the explosion that scattered so much material (a lot that did not explode - yet). There is a huge area that they just put up a big fence and called it a nature preserve. Rather than combing the hundreds of acres for unexploded ordnance. Workers say there are some big bucks back in there.
If it was 600,000 tons I think it should have been bigger. It would be equivalent of 30,000 tractor trailers with 40,000 pound a piece. But I think I know what they are saying, 600,000 tons of munitions, not explosives. A pound of rifle ammunition has just an ounce or so of explosives in them.
Don’t know if it was true, but I wouldn’t lay odds against it.
No. Just ammo.
Look it up.
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