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The United States Army decommissioned the depot on September 12, 2024. [ 1 ] The depot housed 2,613 tons (2,369 metric tons ) of mustard agent in approximately 780,000 munitions, equivalent to about seven percent of the original chemical materiel stockpile of the United States.
Pueblo Depot Activity (PUDA), formerly known as the Pueblo Ordnance Depot and the Pueblo Army Depot, was a U.S. Army ammunition storage and supply facility. Responsibility for the depot fell upon the United States Army Ordnance Corps, and the first civilians were hired in 1942 as operations began. The mission quickly expanded to include general ...
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) is a chemical weapons destruction facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile formerly stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD), now known as the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity-West, in southeastern Colorado. The stockpile originally contained 2,613 U.S ...
With 383,000 105mm shells filled with mustard agent destroyed, 89% of the stockpile kept at Pueblo has been destroyed. Work could finish in 2023. Pueblo Chemical Depot celebrates munitions ...
Approximately 2,000 people work at the depot and about half of them want to stay in Pueblo after the depot closes, according to Russell DeSalvo, the President/CEO of PuebloPlex, the entity that ...
The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) was responsible for the safe and environmentally sound destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles previously stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, and the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, now known as the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity-West.
The U.S. Army has outlined several ideas the plant can be used for in the future. They range from making shipping containers to supplying parts for American ammunition.
Beginning in 1999, ACWA was tasked by the Secretary of Defense to demonstrate six incineration alternatives to destroy the remaining U.S. chemical weapons stockpile stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky and the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, the final two stockpiles in the United States. By 2000, ACWA had demonstrated ...