New Jersey Township Backs CW Waste Disposal

Leaders of a New Jersey municipality have voted in support of plans to dump the waste product of VX nerve agent disposal in the Delaware River, apparently in hopes of receiving a boardwalk, the Associated Press reported Saturday (see GSN, Oct. 20).

The U.S. Army is using chemical neutralization to dispose of 250,000 gallons of VX stored at the Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana.  It has planned to ship hydrolysate waste created by the process to a DuPont plant in New Jersey for final processing.  The treated waste would then be deposited in the river.

Officials from Delaware and New Jersey have strongly objected to the plan, which is presently on hold pending additional study.

The three-member Maurice River Township committee earlier this month decided to back the Army plans, AP reported.

“The Army is offering different bonuses for going along with that,” committee member Norm Frankel told The Press of Atlantic City.  The committee hopes the Army would build a new boardwalk that would provide improved recreational access through marshland.

The Army Chemical Materials Agency has not made any offer of a boardwalk, a spokesman said.  A DuPont spokesman said talks were under way but that a deal had not been finalized (Associated Press/NorthJersey.com, Nov. 18).

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