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Colorado’s $600M order to Army: Clear explosives, clean toxic water at Pueblo chemical weapons depot

Buried munitions and ground water pollution are top cleanup concerns

Maintenance workers, Andrew Stout, left, and Ryan Watson, right, undergo a decontamination procedure in the airlock after a two-hour shift inside the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot on Oct. 18, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Maintenance workers, Andrew Stout, left, and Ryan Watson, right, undergo a decontamination procedure in the airlock after a two-hour shift inside the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot on Oct. 18, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
By | bfinley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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"It is unsellable if it is not cleaned up. It becomes a burden for the community and for the Army and for the state to monitor this contamination in perpetuity if it is not handled appropriately."
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