CWs buried after

Declaration requirements for CWs buried after 1976 or dumped at sea after 1984... 

Non-stockpile chemical material (e.g., wastes from past CW agent disposal efforts, unserviceable munitions, contaminated containers, and found rounds that have been recently located after having been historically buried) are also undergoing disposal. Furthermore, any soil or groundwater that may be contaminated by potentially toxic agent re.sidues at the sites where non-stockpile material has been found are remediated and subjected to the protocoLs of a formal cleanup program (Opresko ct al 1998, 2001 Bakshi etai, 2000). 

Sixth, the historian attempted to show that the total allotment to the CWS for ordnance stores and ammunition for 1918-19 was 1,196,646 thus, the 800,000 figure could not be accurate. The chart that he bases this on states, In the United States Treasury June 30, 1920. The chart also states, In the United States Treasury July 1, 1919, 1,223,485.36. It appears that the figure cited by the historian was what was appropriated after the war ended and was not spent. In the Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (1917-19), it states that the total amount for just contracts for the production of gas was 10,444,035.02. Presumably, these were to universities and private chemical companies. The demobilization of the CWS reduced the Service to 7 percent of its total, or 124 officers and 1348 enlisted men. This sudden demobilization would account for the milfion-dollar leftover and also give credence to the need to bury large stores. 

According to the calculations done by military experts in [3], the maximum rates of leakage of CW sunk near Bornholm Island will be 40 tonnes/year, that is nearly 100 kg/day, 60 years after burying (1947), and 256 tonnes/year, or nearly 700 kg/da, - 125 years after (second leakage maximum). During the second maximum, more than 6,000 tonnes of yperite (85% of the sunk amount) will be discharged into the water. These processes will go on for more than 200 years. This is our present to future generations. 

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