• Pueblo Plant Team Completes Colorado Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – A stockpile of obsolete chemical weapons stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) since the 1950s has been safely eliminated.

  • Two Down, One to Go: Pueblo Plant Completes Second of Three Chemical Weapons Destruction Campaigns

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. — The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) team completed the destruction of more than 383,000 mustard agent-filled 105mm projectiles July 20.

  • Special Event: Pueblo Plant Completes Second of Three Chemical Weapons Destruction Campaigns

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. — On Wednesday, July 27, the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) will hold a special event recognizing the destruction of more than 383,000 mustard agent-filled 105mm projectiles at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP).

  • Final Chemical Weapons Destruction Campaign Begins in Pueblo

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. — The Static Detonation Chamber (SDC) complex began operations at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) Feb. 19, 2022, marking the start of the final chemical weapons destruction campaign in Colorado. Three units will augment operations at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) by destroying problematic munitions, including 4.2-inch mortar rounds…

  • 75% of Mustard Agent in Pueblo Destroyed

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) team reached a significant milestone in the destruction of mustard agent on June 30, marking the safe elimination of approximately three-quarters of the original chemical agent stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD).

  • Pueblo Plant Begins 105mm Projectile Destruction Campaign

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, known as PCAPP, transitioned to its second campaign on Dec. 11 when Projectile Mortar Disassembly operations commenced with the start of destruction of the first 105mm mustard agent-filled projectiles stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot.

  • Pueblo Plant Completes First Munitions Destruction Campaign

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) team completed the destruction of nearly 300,000 155mm projectiles on Sept. 5. This marks the end of the first munitions campaign at PCAPP and the safe elimination of approximately two thirds of the original chemical agent stored at the U.S. Army…

  • Site Project Manager Selected to Lead Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Walton W. Levi has been selected as the new site project manager for the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Pueblo, Colorado.

  • International treaty council visits Pueblo chemical weapons destruction facility

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) leaders and program partners welcomed dignitaries from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, Executive Council to Colorado April 8-9, for a site visit and tour of the PCAPP facility.

  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) Celebrates Milestone for Chemical Agent Demilitarization Operations

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Walton W. Levi, acting site project manager for the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), today announced the achievement of a significant milestone — The elimination of a quarter of the mustard agent stockpiled in chemical weapons in the Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD).

  • No Significant Environmental Impacts to Result from Installation and Operation of Static Detonation Chambers at Pueblo Chemical Depot

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – The Pueblo Chemical Depot, in conjunction with the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) program, has determined that the proposed action of the installation and operation of three Static Detonation Chambers (SDCs) at the depot will have no significant environmental impacts. The SDCs will augment…

  • First Chemical Weapons Processed Today in Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Officials confirmed processing has begun of the first mustard agent-filled munitions today in the heavily automated facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot.

  • Army’s Explosive Destruction System Concludes First in Series of Destruction Campaigns for Pueblo Chemical Stockpile

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – After more than ten months of operation at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD), Colorado, the Explosive Destruction System, or EDS, at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), successfully concluded its first campaign Feb. 11 destroying previously overpacked problematic munitions in advance of the initiation of operations at the…

  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Receives National Safety Recognition

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Today the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) project received one of the highest recognitions for safety practices—Star Status—in the U.S. Dept. of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP).

  • First Munitions Destroyed in PCAPP Explosive Destruction System

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – Today crews at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) successfully completed the destruction of the first munitions –- three mustard-filled 105 mm projectiles — in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS).

  • Start of Agent Operations Underway in Pueblo

    U.S. ARMY PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, Colo. – March 18, 2015 – Following a one-day delay caused by wind conditions, crews at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) successfully completed the movement of mustard-filled items and the first destruction of an item in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS).

  • Pueblo Chemical Stockpile Destruction Process Starts Today

    ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – March 17, 2015 – The process of destroying the chemical stockpile at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot is set to begin today in Colorado. Final approval to commence destroying the 2,611 tons of World War II-era mustard agent stored near Pueblo was granted by the Under Secretary of Defense…

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