DE Forum: DuPont scraps plan to treat VX waste (chem weapon nerve agent waste liquid)

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DuPont scraps plan to treat VX waste
Byproduct of chemical weapon would have been dumped into the Delaware River
By JEFF MONTGOMERY, The News Journal
Posted Saturday, January 6, 2007

The DuPont Co. on Friday abandoned its plan to dispose of treated chemical weapon waste at a factory on the Delaware River across from New Castle.

A DuPont spokesman said the company faced a tough fight to win regulatory approval for the plan, which would have brought as much as 4 million gallons of wastewater to its Chambers Works plant in Deepwater, N.J., at the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

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Under the plan, the Army would have shipped neutralized VX nerve agent waste liquid called hydrolysate from Newport, Ind., to Deepwater for breakdown and disposal. VX is a liquid chemical capable of killing in droplet-sized amounts.

But DuPont and military officials found a gauntlet of opposition, including a sometimes hostile public, a federal lawsuit, congressional scrutiny and skeptical state regulators.

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"The Army now has another opportunity to work cooperatively with contractors and the Newport community to destroy the hydrolysate on-site, per its original plan," said Elizabeth Crowe of the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a Kentucky-based citizen organization. "Too much time and money has been wasted trying to force communities to accept this waste. It's time to get the job done right."

more...
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS/701060336/1006

Pardon my glee, but.... WHOO-DAMN-HOO! :woohoo: