[CPEO-MEF] Newport Chemical Depot (IN) VX spill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Says Spilled Liquid Containing VX Safely Cleaned

WAVE-TV 3 (KY)
June 13, 2005

(NEWPORT, Ind.) -- Nearly all of about 30 gallons of a liquid containing 
VX has been cleaned up after spilling into a containment area during a 
process to destroy the deadly nerve agent, the Army said Monday.

Workers in protective gear used a mixture of sodium hydroxide and water 
to clean any surface the liquid touched at the Newport Chemical Agent 
Destruction Facility in western Indiana. Monitors that provide 
contamination readings registered minute amounts during their latest 
readings, spokeswoman Terry Arthur said.

"The level is very low and falling," she said.

The spill Friday night was the first since workers began destroying the 
chemical at the depot on May 5. The Army said in a release that none of 
the agent escaped a containment area and that there was no danger to 
nearby communities.

For the entire story, see
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3467214
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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