Bechtel-Parsons Blue Grass gives $300,000 gift to help expand mental health services in central Kent The company was hired to destroy the chemical weapons at the Blue Grass Army Depot WEKU · Apr 22, 2024
Blue Grass Army Depot says chemical weapon destruction plant’s decommissioning ahead of schedule Members of the Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens’ Advisory Commission and the Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board met Wednesday to hear an update on the Blue Grass Army Depot’s chemical weapons destruction plant closing operations. WEKU · Mar 6, 2024
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. WEKU · Sep 6, 2023
Kentucky's role in the elimination of nerve and mustard agents has worldwide implications The U.S. has destroyed its last chemical weapon. It’s been decades in the making.The more than 500 tons of Nerve and Mustard agent had been stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot for all those years. WEKU · Jul 11, 2023
Disposal of last chemical munition is expected this summer in Madison County The destruction of chemical weapons stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County is in the home stretch. If all goes according to schedule, the last nerve agent rocket will be destroyed by August. WEKU · Jun 7, 2023
Depot chemical weapons disposal plant to see significant downsizing in 2025 The scaling down of the workforce at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Madison County is coming WEKU · Sep 20, 2022
Destruction of the last VX nerve munition in Madison County completed Workers at the Madison County chemical weapons disposal plant have finished destruction of the V-X nerve agent stored nearby. With the neutralization of the last V-X munitions this week it signaled final destruction of the entire U.S. stockpile of this chemical weapon. WEKU · Apr 20, 2022