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Pueblo chemical stockpile on path to destruction
Posted: Sep 26, 2011 10:23 AM by David Ortiviz
Updated: Sep 26, 2011 10:27 AM
Work is almost complete on a $3.5 billion project to destroy hundreds of tons of mustard agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot east of Pueblo. Here's a quick glance at the timeline to destroy the chemical stockpile which has been stored at the depot since the 1950s.
Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant
Sept. 2004: Groundbreaking
Sept. 2011: Construction 80% complete
2015: Plant should start operation to destroy weapons through neutralization
2017: Deadline to destroy stockpile under U.S. Chemical Weapon Convention treaty
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