The risk of leaks or explosions from other kinds of weapons that were stored at the site is now past.
Work can begin on converting the Umatilla Depot to other uses. We also must face the challenge of replacing the military and civilian jobs with an annual payroll in the millions.
It will take another three-plus years to take down the plant used to process the chemical, so the jobs will not go away all at once.
Other former military bases have found new lives that generated even more employment than their pasts. We can hope the same is true in our county when we look back a decade or so from now.
Meanwhile, we congratulate the depot workers for their truly great job in keeping us safe while they destroyed these chemical weapons. They took good care of their neighbors.
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