Umatilla Chemical Depot News

A public emergency alert at the Umatilla Chemical Depot was accidentally activated shortly after noon today.

With the Army on track to destroy the last of the deadly mustard agents at its Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2011 and return the sprawling property to public use, developers from ports to tribes are drawing up plans.

Businesses are invited to visit the Umatilla Chemical Depot on Oct. 20 to see the buildings and property that could go up for sale when the site no longer is needed to store chemical weapons.

First they got rid of the GB, a deadly nerve agent also known as sarin -- more than 1,000 tons of it in bombs, rockets and other ghastly containers.

USAMRIID finds more than 9,200 unrecorded disease samples [Frederick, MD] "An inventory completed last month showed researchers at Fort Detrick had more than 9,200 more vials of disease samples than they had on record.

Work to incinerate mustard agent at the Umatilla Chemical Depot is continuing despite a court hearing last week.

Environmentalists have asked an Oregon court to halt the burning of mustard gas at the Umatilla Chemical Depot.

Last Oregon Chemical Weapons Stockpile Campaign Begins HERMISTON, Ore., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Umatilla Chemical Depot storage workers began delivering HD mustard-filled bulk containers or "ton containers" to the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility at 10 a.m. this morning.

Wildfires, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions -- they could all make an emergency evacuation necessary somewhere.