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DuPont Says Wastewater Treatment Method Successful
DuPont Co. has developed a method to capture or eliminate up to 99 percent of two toxic compounds found in the byproduct of chemical weapons neutralization, the company announced Tuesday (see GSN, Jan. 25). The U.S. Army plans to send upwards of 4 million gallons of wastewater created by VX nerve agent neutralization in Newport, Ind. to New Jersey for processing at a DuPont plant beginning this spring, the Delaware News Journal reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to issue a report on the plan. Last year, Delaware officials challenged the proposal because of concerns about the two chemicals, which DuPont at the time acknowledged would pass mostly untreated into the Delaware River. “That really served as the catalyst for the technology,” said DuPont spokesman Anthony Farina. “We heard the message loud and clear. We rolled up our sleeves and got to work.” The new method could be “potentially a good thing,” said Rick Green, a scientist at the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control who last year issued a report critical of DuPont’s plan. The Army Chemical Materials Agency received DuPont’s new plan Tuesday, said agency spokesman Jeff Lindblad. He added that the Army was prepared to go forward with neutralization in April or May but that Congress must be informed of the work 30 days before startup (Jeff Montgomery, News Journal, March 2).
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