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PCAPP Monthly Recap - May 2020

PCAPP Monthly Recap – May 2020

By iemadmin | Monthly Recap, PCAPP News | Comments are Closed | 2 June, 2020 | 0

A brief overview of what happened at PCAPP in May 2020.

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Training for Pueblo Plant Operations Adapts to Pandemic

By iemadmin | Environnment, PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 8 May, 2020 | 0

After six weeks of limited classroom time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Training Facility resumed normal schedules May 4, implementing guidelines for sanitation and social distancing.

PCAPP Monthly Recap - April 2020

PCAPP Monthly Recap – April 2020

By iemadmin | Monthly Recap, PCAPP News | Comments are Closed | 5 May, 2020 | 0

A brief overview of what happened at PCAPP in April 2020.

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Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Public Meeting to Be Conducted Online

By iemadmin | PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 23 April, 2020 | 0

The Colorado Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission will not hold an in-person public meeting as scheduled for April 29 at the McHarg Park Community Center in Avondale, Colorado.

Reconfigured 4.2-inch HD mustard mortar rounds rest on a pallet inside the Enhanced Reconfiguration Building at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. During the baseline reconfiguration process, the mortar rounds are taken out of wooden boxes and fiberboard tubes in preparation for destruction. The plant has finished reconfiguring HD rounds and is now preparing HT mustard rounds.

Baseline Reconfiguration Shifts from HD to HT Mustard Rounds

By iemadmin | PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 13 April, 2020 | 0

Preparation of 4.2-inch mortar rounds for destruction at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot plant has entered a new phase.

Three 30-day hydrolysate storage tanks at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant contain caustic wastewater that is the product of chemical neutralization of mustard agent. Hydrolysate will be shipped off site to meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pueblo Plant Reducing Waste Levels With Shipments

By iemadmin | PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 8 April, 2020 | 0

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant is reducing its storage levels in line with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sprung structures rise at the Static Detonation Chamber site at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant. Three SDC units have been assembled to augment the main facility and destroy problematic munitions.

Plants Share Static Detonation Chamber Knowledge

By iemadmin | PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 3 April, 2020 | 0

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Static Detonation Chamber team traveled to the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky Feb. 25-26 for a lessons-learned visit with colleagues at their Explosive Destruction Technology facility after more than a year of biweekly calls to discuss the systems.

PCAPP Monthly Recap - March 2020

PCAPP Monthly Recap – March 2020

By iemadmin | Monthly Recap, PCAPP News | Comments are Closed | 2 April, 2020 | 0

A brief overview of what happened at PCAPP in March 2020.

  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant workers celebrate the destruction of 50% of the mustard agent in the Colorado chemical weapons stockpile on Feb. 26. An April 4 public celebration to mark the milestone has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • A Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Control Room operator monitors the processing of a 155mm projectile representing the destruction of 50% of the mustard agent in the Colorado chemical weapons stockpile. An April 4 public celebration to mark the milestone has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pueblo Event Marking Mustard Agent Milestone Canceled

By iemadmin | Events, PCAPP News | Comments are Closed | 17 March, 2020 | 0

A public event to mark the achievement of eliminating 50% of the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot mustard agent stockpile by the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has been canceled.

Tanker trucks will ship salt water to Veolia in Port Arthur, Texas, from the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in an effort to reduce high salt concentration in the Biotreatment Area’s Water Recovery System that could potentially damage tanks.

Shipments Reduce Salt Water Risk to Storage Tanks

By iemadmin | PCAPP News, Technology | Comments are Closed | 5 March, 2020 | 0

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has begun shipping salt water off site in an effort to relieve the Water Recovery System of a high salt concentration that could potentially damage its tanks.

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