Workers completed the last of four quarterly sampling activities in April to determine a baseline to protect the freshwater aquifer that flows underneath the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP).
Workers completed installation of an air-monitoring system in March which places monitors between the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) and the Blue Grass Army Depot installation boundary.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law a bill requesting a change to the way Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant process waste will be designated under the state’s waste codes April 6.
For more than 30 years, one Commonwealth of Kentucky employee has ensured prairie remnants – grasslands of native Kentucky species – flourish on the Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD).
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) submitted a request Nov. 12, 2015, to the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection (KDEP) for a revision to the project’s Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) permit.
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) team requested a permit modification from Kentucky regulators Nov. 2 to sample and verify mustard agent as part of an international pledge to destroy chemical weapons.
Keeping Kentucky’s air, water and land clean is extremely important to Blue Grass plant personnel. To that end, the project partners with the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection (KDEP) to ensure the project meets or exceeds all of the commonwealth’s environmental regulations.
