[CPEO-MEF] Sampling for mercury in Deseret (UT) "mustard" containers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mustard agent sampling begins    	

Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (UT)  	
June 8, 2006

The U.S. Army and EG&G Defense Materials, Inc, Tuesday began a major, 
unprecedented joint project to sample the contents of Deseret Chemical 
Depot's (DCD's) stockpile of bulk containers filled with mustard blister 
agent.

Under the joint sampling project, DCD workers will deliver bulk 
containers to specially outfitted igloos in the "Area 10" munitions 
storage location, where EG&G workers will transfer them into sealed 
glove-box units, allowing operators to safely open them and remove 
samples for analysis and characterization by site laboratory personnel.

Following sampling, EG&G workers will close and return the containers to 
DCD personnel for storage according to their contents facilitating their 
eventual processing. The sampling project is expected to take 
two-and-a-half to three years to complete. Bulk container disposal 
operations are expected to begin this summer, targeting for destruction 
sampled containers identified as having no or low mercury contamination 
and low solids content.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tooeletranscript.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=13770&Itemid=54
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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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