[CPEO-MEF] Army investigating Newport Chemical Depot (IN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army investigating Newport facility
Site of VX destruction being scoured before possible handover to local government.

By Tammy Webber
Indianopolis Star
December 5, 2005

The Army is investigating whether hazardous materials are buried at the
Newport Chemical Depot, a military installation where the nation's
largest stockpile of VX nerve agent is being destroyed.

Officials want to make sure they know what's on the grounds of the
64-year-old former weapons-production plant because the Army could turn
the site over to Vermillion County within the next several years,
possibly for use as an industrial park.

A federal panel voted this year to close the depot once the VX is
removed and the plant is dismantled. More than 250,000 gallons of VX,
stored at the depot since production was halted in 1969, is supposed be
destroyed within three years.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051205/NEWS01/512050372

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
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