BRIDGEVILLE -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has established a hot line to answer questions about the growing number of incidents of vintage ordinance found in clamshell driveways of several Delaware homes this year.
Rob Williams, project manager for the Corps of Engineers Baltimore District, said Tuesday the move was to help people worried that deliveries of crushed clamshells -- used to create driveways around the Delmarva Peninsula -- could also contain unexploded grenades.
The pilot facility, called the Aberdeen Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, will use chemical neutralization and biological processes to treat the 1600 tons of mustard agent stored in ton containers at the Edgewood Area of APG. Unlike incineration, which releases toxic chemicals into the environment through smokestacks, the neutralization/biological process will contain byproducts, and only release them into the environment after they have been proven safe. Non-incineration technologies will also be employed for disposal of nerve agents stored in Newport, Indiana.
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Earlier this month, the Arkansas state environmental agency gave the Army the green light to build and operate an incinerator to destroy chemical weapons stored at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. The incinerator permit was awarded despite years of citizen protest, hundreds of pages of written comments, and a Congressionally-mandated program identifying other non-incineration disposal technologies. The CWWG's Williams adds, "With 80% of the Arkansas chemical weapons stockpile identical to Maryland's, the fact that the Army continues to move forward with incineration in Arkansas is ludicrous."
I'm not sure what the army has against the citizens of Arkansas.
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