Blue Grass Army Depot

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Blue Grass Army Depot is a chemical weapon and standard munitions storage facility located at Richmond, Kentucky, operated by the United States Army It stores a small stockpile of chemical agents, comprising 523 tons of nerve agents GB (sarin) and VX, and mustard gas, or about two percent of the United States chemical weapons stockpile.^[1] As of 2003, destruction of the Blue Grass chemical weapons stockpile had been planned to be carried out by Bechtel Parsons using the technology known as neutralization followed by supercritical water oxidation. Transport of post-treatment wastewater to a chemical waste facility in New Jersey is being considered.^[2] Groundbreaking for the chemical destruction facility took place on October 2, 2006. Final design of the facility should be complete in 2007. Destruction of the chemical stockpile is scheduled to begin by mid-2012.

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• The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - Kentucky. U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (July 28, 2004). Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
• ↑  ACWA - Blue Grass - Chemical Weapons Disposal:. Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program. United States Department of Defense (July 25, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
• ↑  Montgomery, Jeff. "DuPont may take on more weapons waste", Delaware Online, Delaware News-Journal, September 14, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.