[CPEO-MEF] VX neutralent treated at Port Arthur, TX

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veolia begins treatment of VX wastewater

By Amy Moore
The Port Arthur News (TX)
April 17, 2007

PORT ARTHUR - Sixteen-thousand gallons of a former nerve gas agent have 
made their way to Port Arthur and the process of incineration has begun.
The first of many convoys from Indiana carrying the caustic wastewater 
arrived shortly after midnight Tuesday at Veolia Environmental Services, 
where the material will be incinerated as part of an international 
treaty to destroy chemical weapons.

Veolia recently signed a $49 million contract with the U.S. Army to 
destroy the VX wastewater at its Port Arthur facility, one of only three 
facilities in the nation with the necessary equipment to do so. Mitch 
Osborne, general manager of the Gulf Coast branch of Veolia, said 
destroying all of the former chemical agent could take up to two years 
but the company's contract with the military goes through 2012.

According to Osborne, Veolia will continue to receive shipments of the 
caustic wastewater, but not on a regular schedule.

"Some weeks we won't get any and some weeks we'll get 12 shipments," he 
said. "They've (Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana) generated less than 
half of the material and we'll get it as they process it."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.panews.com/local/local_story_107193148.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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