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U.S. Army to recognize Tooele-area weapons depot

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 5:36pm

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Army officials are recognizing the workers at the Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah who helped destroy the nation’s largest stockpile of chemical weapons.

Depot commander Col. Mark B. Pomeroy will host a ceremony Thursday in Tooele celebrating the end of operations at the facility.

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File-In this Jan.18,2012 file photo showing a view of the Deseret Chemical Depot outside Stockton, Utah. The elimination of Utah's chemical weapons stockpile last weekend means the loss of millions of dollars in federal funding to the state that for more than two decades helped pay for sophisticated emergency command centers, equipment and training for first responders. The Deseret Chemical Depot finished incineration and decontamination on Saturday Jan. 21,2012. (AP Photo/George Frey,File)

End of munitions destruction in Utah means loss of 1,400 jobs, federal money

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 6:09pm

TOOELE -- Utah's massive chemical weapons stockpile is gone and along with it federal funding that helped pay for sophisticated emergency response centers.

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Aerial view of Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF).
The plant covers 27 acres and is approximately 12 miles south of the town of Tooele.

Army burns off final chemical weapons in Utah

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 12:58pm

STOCKTON — The U.S. Army will have destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile — a witches’ brew of toxins, blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War, officials said Wednesday.

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Utah to lose 1,300 jobs when munitions sites close

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 5, 2011 - 8:04am

TOOELE -- Officials say about 1,300 Utah jobs are being phased out with the planned closing of two U.S. Army facilities responsible for storing and incinerating the nation's largest stockpile of chemical weapons over the past 15 years.

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Chemical weapons disposal chamber arrives in Utah

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 9:54am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The manager of the U.S. Army chemical weapons incinerator in Tooele County says he's "100 percent confident" that a high-tech incinerator brought to Utah to blow up corroded chemical munitions will work as expected, and won't harm to people or the environment.

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