[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: Schofield Barracks (HI) to destroy found items

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

April 9, 2008

Army destroying old chemical munitions

By William Cole
Advertiser Military Writer

The Army is spending $7 million at Schofield Barracks to destroy 
1940s-era chemical weapons that were discovered beginning in 2005 during 
unexploded ordnance cleanup for a new Stryker brigade "battle area complex."

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Starting Tuesday, the Army plans to destroy 71 rounds that contain 
chloropicrin and phosgene, also a choking agent.

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Denver-based CH2M Hill previously said it had been awarded a contract to 
use its portable detonation chamber technology to dispose of the 
Schofield chemical weapons.

...

According to the environmental assessment, a 5,600-square-foot 
ventilation-controlled enclosure will be placed over the detonation 
chamber. Sixteen tractor trailers are needed to transport the equipment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/NEWS08/804090416/1018/LOCALNEWSFRONT

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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