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Date Posted: 12:36:06 02/09/05 Wed
Author: r
Author Host/IP: ca-01.cinergycom.net / 216.135.2.28
Subject: Re: testing
In reply to: r 's message, "Re: testing" on 11:36:06 01/02/05 Sun

Ever here of the US Army's Newport Chemical Depot? Note that there is no "official website" or imagery of Newport and even the link to the MS-Terraserver (on that page) is no longer active (TopozoneMap). All of that is, of course, for national security, to stifle any attack especially a terrorist attack. Newport is about 70 miles up US 41 from my farm. About the only thing that Newport exists for now is the storage of the Lethal Nerve Agent known as VX.

VX is a sulfonated organophosphorous compound which only has a use in chemical warfare, although it was originally discovered by British scientists looking for a new insecticide. VX is an oily liquid that is clear, odorless and tasteless. It can be amber colored and similar in appearance to motor oil. It was manufactured by the U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM) in the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) on the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, other sites, and at Newport (DuPont was the contractor if I remember correctly). 1,269 tons (4 million gallons) of the ultra-deadly VX nerve agent came to be stockpiled at the Newport Chemical Depot. The Army plans to destroy the VX nerve agent at Newport. Then ship the contaminated water by-product to the DuPont Secure Environmental Treatment facility in Deepwater, N.J., their Chambers Works for treatment of the caustic wastewater from Newport and disposal in the Delaware River - if VX is ever destroyed.

Now a couple of weeks ago workers dismantling a plant where the deadly VX nerve agent was manufactured in the 1960s stumbled onto a tank last week filled with 20 gallons of the deadly chemical. None of the workers was exposed (above health-threatening limits) and no VX was released. The VX was put into an approved container and placed with the other 1269 tons in its special concrete bunker. This is why an alarm system was instituted a few years ago to warn the surrounding communities of the release of any VX.

So schools in the surrounding area conduct drills in case of the accidental release of VX. And today the alarm went off and those drills became reality, even if the alarm was false. Here's a news article about a 2003 false alarm. Well, it is Wednesday, and they do a test every Wednesday and sometimes that sets off the alarm as it did in 2003.

So far no real news on the false alarm. Maybe complacency is setting in with the news agencies. Maybe it's something else?

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