The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) and Umatilla Chemical Depot recently reached a milestone of 5 million pounds of chemical agent destroyed. Since the beginning of operations in September 2004, the site has eliminated the nerve agents GB and VX, and is currently destroying HD mustard blister agent.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility weekly project update - October 14, 2010
On Sunday, Oct. 3, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) achieved the destruction of 80 percent of the U.S. chemical agent stockpile. The United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty in April 1997. “This is another positive step in meeting the treaty.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility weekly project update - October 7, 2010
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has approved the UMCDF’s Temporary Authorization Request (TAR) to construct, install and systemize a Rinsate Feed Collection System (RCS). Official approval came from Steven Potts, DEQ administrator of the Chemical Demilitarization Program, in a letter dated Oct. 1. It notes that this temporary authorization will expire March 30, 2011, or when a decision on the rinsate Permit Modification Request (PMR) is made, which ever occurs first.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility weekly project update - September 30, 2010
The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) has received the OK to increase the destruction of mustard ton containers through the Metal Parts Furnace (MPF) from a 50 percent processing rate to 75 percent.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
UMCDF ramps up destruction of chemical agent
The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) has increased the destruction of chemical mustard agent from a 50 percent processing rate to 75 percent, effective today
“Our plant has received the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality approval for this increase and has made the required steps to safely ramp up the destruction of the remaining chemical mustard agent stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot,” said Gary Anderson, U.S. Army site project manager at the UMCDF.
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“Our plant has received the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality approval for this increase and has made the required steps to safely ramp up the destruction of the remaining chemical mustard agent stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot,” said Gary Anderson, U.S. Army site project manager at the UMCDF.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility weekly project update - September 23, 2010
The Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF) submitted a Class 2 permit modification request (PMR) to the Oregon Department of Enviromental Quality (DEQ) this week to revise Attachment 9 (Metals Feed Characterization, Spiking, and Extrapolation) of the UMCDF HD (mustard) Agent Trial Burn/Comprehensive Performance Test Plan. The proposed changes reflect a request to establish appropriate HD metal feed rate limits, following completion of the trial burn, utilizing spiked metals representative of the metal volatility classes.
A public information meeting on this PMR will be held at 6 p.m. on October 13, 2010 at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston.
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A public information meeting on this PMR will be held at 6 p.m. on October 13, 2010 at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston.
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