COMMERCE CITY, Colo.—A former engineer at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver has been named site project manager for a plant that will destroy mustard agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
The Army announced last week that Bruce Huenefeld (HEWN’-uh-feld) takes over in June.
The Pueblo depot contains 2,600 tons of mustard agent in obsolete shells. The destruction plant is expected to begin dismantling and neutralizing the weapons in 2015.
Huenefeld replaces Gary Anderson, who left to manage of a chemical weapons destruction plan in Umatilla, Ore.
Huenefeld was most recently the supervisory engineer at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where nerve gas, chemical weapons and pesticides were once manufactured. It has been cleaned up and converted into a wildlife refuge.
Huenefeld has a chemical engineering degree from the University of Wyoming.
