Anniston Army Depot

During another field application in 1997, Geo-Cleanse was used to remove DNAPLs from over 43,125 yd of contaminated soil at the DOD s Anniston Army Depot in Anniston, Alabama. 

ADEM issued a permit (AL3210020027) to the U.S. Department of the Army, Anniston Army Depot the U.S. Department of the Army, ANCDF Field Office (ANCDF site) and Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company EEC to operate a hazardous waste storage and treatment facility. 

The total estimated cost for the proposed facility sited at Anniston Army Depot including equipment is 27,700,000. 

Carnes, S.A., J.A. Boyette, F.C. Kornegay, et al. 1986. Preliminary Assessment of the Health and Environmental Impacts of Incinerating M55 Rockets Stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Lexington-Blue Grass Depot Activity, and/or Anniston Army Depot at Pine Blujf Arsenal. ORNL-6197. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 

Industrial production of sulfur mustard was discontinued in 1968 at that time, the US stockpile contained some 17 000 tonnes (ATSDR, 2003). The US unitary chemical weapons stockpile includes sulfur mustard which was originally present in various munitions and tonne containers at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah, Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, the Umatilla Depot Activity in Oregon, Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas and Tooele Army Depot in Utah (DOD, 1996). HD, H and HT are stored in various containers and munitions at these and several other nonstockpile sites. Destruction of the remaining stockpile, either by hydrolysis or incineration, is presently underway. Incineration of nearly 4000 tonnes of... 

Checkai RT et al., Transport and Fate of Nitroaromatic and Nitramine Explosives in Soils from Open Burning Open Detonation Operations at Anniston Army Depot, ERDEC-TR-135, Edgewood Research Development and Engineering Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 1993. 

ANAD Anniston Army Depot DRE destraction and removal efficiency... 

If a permit modification can be obtained, the two GB-filled ton containers can be handled in the Anniston Chemical Disposal Facility (ANCDF) since that facility can monitor for GB and has the equipment to punch and drain ton containers. The bottles and vials are more problematic. If they can be opened and placed in a tray, they can be fed into the metal parts furnace (MPF) or possibly into the deactivation furnace system (DFS). If it is necessary to access the agent in the bottles, they can be crushed prior to feeding into the DFS. The PMNSCM proposes to use the ANCDF for disposal of the Anniston Army Depot chemical samples. It is also possible to destroy agents in the vials and DOT bottles with the EDS-1, although this may not be as economical as using the ANCDF. 

Workers were fesfing fhe deacfivafion furnace May 8, after destroying the last of fhe sarin nerve agenf stored at the Anniston Army Depot in March. At about 10 p.m. that night, 72 carbon-steel bolts, which held the 7-foot-diameter, cylindrical steel furnace suspended above the ground, broke. The tower portion of the furnace fell away and became wedged 10 to 15 feet above the ground in a steel-beam frame around the furnace. 

Most of the chemical agent and munitions stockpile is stored at eight Army depots in the continental United States at Anniston, Alabama Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pueblo, Colorado Newport, Indiana Lexington, Kentucky Aberdeen, Maryland Umatilla, Oregon and Tooele, Utah. A portion of the stockpile is stored at two overseas locations (Germany, and Johnston Island in the Pacific). Figure 2.1 shows the storage locations in the continental United States. 

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