Additional Trial Burns Completed at Chemical Depot

Follow-up incinerator testing requested by Alabama environmental regulators was completed at the U.S. Army’s Anniston chemical weapons depot on Saturday, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 19).

”Our preliminary data looks extremely good,” site manager Tim Garrett said in a statement released yesterday. A brief report would be sent to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management for review, he added.

Earlier this month, state officials told the Army to repeat a trial run destruction of M55 rockets filled with sarin nerve agent because the state had not approved the test method used in April.

The new tests went according to plan and no flaws were detected, according to the Army (Associated Press/Gainesville Sun, July 19).

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