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Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)
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      Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA)

      Mission: Destroy Chemical Weapons Stockpile

      Vision: Chemical Weapons Free by 2023

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      Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP)

      BGCAPP is safely destroying the chemical weapons stockpile currently in storage at the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond, Kentucky.

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      Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP)

      PCAPP is safely destroying the chemical weapons stockpile currently in storage at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado.

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  • Inside the Agent Processing Building of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, an ordnance technician stands watch as another uses a munitions handling lift assist unit to place disassembled 155mm projectiles onto a conveyor for neutralization processing. The Pueblo plant has entered its operations phase after successfully completing a lengthy pilot testing period.
    Pueblo Plant Transitions From Pilot Testing Into Full Operations
    PCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Walton Levi, who has been serving as acting site project manager, will fill the position on a permanent basis.
    Acting Site Project Manager at Pueblo Plant Named to Permanent Post
    PCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Col. Christopher A. Grice, left, turns over command of the Pueblo Chemical Depot to Col. Michael W. Cobb, right, as Col. Kelso C. Horne III, U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity director, center, oversees a change of command ceremony June 26 at the Depot. Col. Cobb becomes the Depot’s 38th commanding officer.
    Pueblo Chemical Depot Welcomes New U.S. Army Commander
    PCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee members inspect equipment during a tour of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. This organization recently completed a study on the plant’s supercritical water oxidation system.
    Study Released on Secondary Process Performance
    BGCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Dr. Candace Coyle
    Program Head Introduces New Site Project Manager
    BGCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Workers build scaffolding for inspection and repair of two 30-Day Hydrolysate Storage Tanks at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. Routine inspection in May found seeping from “weep holes” designed to alert the plant to issues with the tanks, shutting down processing of the wastewater that results from chemical neutralization of mustard agent.
    Pueblo Plant Resumes Chemical Agent Destruction
    PCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Col. Lewis McBride is shown holding a tear gas gun, 1924. Behind him is the 4.2-inch chemical mortar he refined at his machine shop, Edgewood Arsenal, 1924. (Photo contributed by the Army Chemical Review).
    Army Colonel Remembered for Refining the 4.2-inch Mortar
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  • Munitions handlers place the first 155mm mustard-agent filled projectile slated for destruction into a feed box June 7. The projectile was automatically fed into the Static Detonation Chamber at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant and destroyed the same day. (Image taken from closed-circuit television.)
    Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stockpile Begins at Blue Grass Army Depot
    BGCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Construction workers prepare the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot’s former Explosive Destruction System site for construction of three Static Detonation Chambers that will aid the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in its mission to destroy aging chemical munitions
    Static Detonation Chamber Construction Begins at Pueblo Plant
    PCAPP FEATURED NEWS
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  • Our Mission
    Destroy Chemical Weapons Stockpile
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  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot (PCAPP)
    PCAPP is safely destroying the stockpile of chemical weapons in storage at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado.
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  • Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot (BGCAPP)
    BGCAPP will safely destroy a stockpile of chemical weapons currently in storage at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.
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Recent Videos

  • Image: June 26 Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission Meeting (2019)
    June 26 Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission Meeting (2019)
    July 1, 2019
  • Image: Pueblo Plant Progress – June 2019
    Pueblo Plant Progress – June 2019
    July 1, 2019
  • Image: Blue Grass Plant Progress – June 2019
    Blue Grass Plant Progress – June 2019
    July 1, 2019
  • Kentucky Marks Start of Agent Destruction Operations
    Kentucky Marks Start of Agent Destruction Operations
    June 7, 2019
  • Pueblo Plant Progress – May 2019
    Pueblo Plant Progress - May 2019
    June 6, 2019
  • Blue Grass Plant Progress – May 2019
    Blue Grass Plant Progress – May 2019
    June 6, 2019

Upcoming Public Involvement Meetings

Permitting Working Group and Biotreatment Utilization Group
July 31, 2019 at 2 p.m. MDT
District Attorney’s Conference Room
701 Court St.
Pueblo, Colorado

Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission
July 31, 2019 at 6 p.m. MDT
Olde Towne Carriage House
102 S. Victoria Ave.
Pueblo, Colorado

Permitting Working Group and Biotreatment Utilization Group
Aug. 21, 2019 at 2 p.m. MDT (tentative)
District Attorney’s Conference Room
701 Court St.
Pueblo, Colorado

“I love my team.”

Megan H.
PCAPP Monitoring Technician
Megan H. PCAPP Monitoring Technician

“I love my job. I’m on the Charlie team. Everyone is very helpful and goal-oriented. We truly are one team, one mission.”

Melvin R.
PCAPP Ordnance Technician
Melvin R. PCAPP Ordnance Technician

“This is the third plant I have worked with. We are doing something important. Eliminating these weapons is making a difference.”

Washington C.
BGCAPP Materials Coordinator
Washington C. BGCAPP Materials Coordinator

“I love the people I work with.”

Roberta S.
PCAPP Engineering Administrator
Roberta S. PCAPP Engineering Administator

“Our team is a good group to work with.”

Ben F.
BGCAPP Munitions Handler
Ben F. BGCAPP Munitions Handler

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