[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, REUSE: Umatilla Depot (OR) mission accomplished

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Umatilla Chemical Depot's mission success

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
October 23, 2011

HERMISTON -- Within a matter of days, the risk of a chemical weapons  
accident at the Umatilla Chemical Depot should be gone.

...

Already, for the first time in 70 years, what's now the Umatilla  
Chemical Depot is not being used to store Army munitions. The depot  
is about 40 miles south of Kennewick between interstates 82 and 84 in  
Oregon.

...

Some of the 20,000 acres of the depot are planned to be developed for  
industrial use, helping to replace some of the jobs that are lost.

The reuse plan, developed by county, port and tribal leadership and  
adopted by the Army, calls for about 7,400 acres to be turned over to  
the Oregon National Guard. That includes the firing range and the  
area used for ammunition demolition. The guard is expected to start  
moving into some buildings in February.

The next largest portion, 5,600 acres, will be left natural for a  
wildlife refuge to preserve some of the best shrub steppe habitat  
left in the Columbia Basin. It includes nesting areas for two species  
of concern, the long-billed curlew and the burrowing owl, Ferguson said.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/10/23/2240171/umatilla-chemical- 
depots-mission.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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