[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Army civilians remove potential World War II chemical munition discovered in Delaware"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army civilians remove potential World War II chemical munition discovered in Delaware

By Walter Ham
U.S. Army
March 15, 2023

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – U.S. Army civilians removed a potential World War II era chemical round discovered in Delaware.

The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Analytical and Remediation Activity (CARA) was called by U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians after the old round was discovered by a local clamming company.

Franz J. Amann, the director of CARA, said these chemical munition recoveries are not unusual during local dredging operations.

“The Delaware waterways are one of many locations along the East Coast that the War Department disposed of chemical warfare materiel after 1944,” said Amann. “Initially, disposals occurred at a minimum depth of 300 feet and ten miles offshore. In 1945, the War Department changed the minimum depth of disposal to 6,000 feet. After almost 80 years, many of these rounds have been moved away from their burial sites by the ocean currents and during hurricanes.”

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For the entire release, see
https://www.army.mil/article/264852/army_civilians_remove_potential_world_war_ii_chemical_munition_discovered_in_delaware

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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