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Blue Grass Army Depot public meeting discusses plant’s future after completion of weapons disposal

The Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board had their quarterly meeting with Blue Grass Army Depot officials Wednesday. It’s the first since all munitions at the plant were destroyed last July.

The process to destroy what is considered secondary waste at the plant is now underway. Nearly five percent of the containerized rocket warheads contaminated with GB nerve agent have been drained as of the beginning of this week. Destruction of the VX-contaminated warheads is set to begin in November.

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