The Pueblo plant team has safely destroyed more than 90% of the original stockpile of mustard agent-filled munitions stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot as of Nov. 25.
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The Blue Grass team destroyed 50% of the chemical agent originally stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot as of Sept. 9.
Community members joined government officials and project staff in Pueblo, Colorado July 27 to recognize completion of the 105mm projectile destruction campaign.
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant team completed the destruction of more than 383,000 mustard agent-filled 105mm projectiles on July 20.
U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot toxic materials handlers transported the final pallet of 105mm projectiles to the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant July 5.
The first M55 rocket containing GB nerve agent was destroyed at the Blue Grass plant July 6.
The last M55 rocket containing VX nerve agent was destroyed at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, or BGCAPP, April 19.
Operators destroyed the first 4.2-inch mortar rounds containing mustard agent using the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Static Detonation Chamber units on Feb. 19.
Destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile located in two states has reached the 75% completion mark, with a combined total of more than 2,352 U.S. tons of chemical agent destroyed as of Jan. 14, 2022.
Fifty percent of all VX nerve agent in the stockpile of chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot has been destroyed as of Nov. 14.