"Burn Pits" are getting a lot of attention in Congress right now. Many of you have read - in whole or in part - Ft. McClellan's 1998 Environmental Baseline Survey. Here's a different view and food f... View More"Burn Pits" are getting a lot of attention in Congress right now. Many of you have read - in whole or in part - Ft. McClellan's 1998 Environmental Baseline Survey. Here's a different view and food for thought!
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BURNED or INCINERATED or DETONATED:
Ft. McClellan, former home of the Women’s Army Corps, the U.S. Army Chemical School, the Military Police School, and the DoDs Polygraph Institute and various other units – like many military bases both foreign and domestic, burned, incinerated, and detonated various materials. Ft. McClellan also burned and/or detonated chemical warfare material, herbicides, fog oil, and just about everything else mentioned above – for decades on Main Post & Pelham Range (1940s thru decommissioning in 1999)
(Keep in mind cumulative exposure, combined exposure, and even multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome)
Based solely on one document - the 1998 Environmental Baseline Survey, Volume I, these specific items were burned, incinerated, and/or detonated on the historical FMC:
Petroleum products, oils, paints, wooden vehicle crates, paper boxes, fan belts, hoses, CS tear gas, CN tear gas, nonpersistent chlorine gas, empty pesticide containers, ammunition, burned ammunition pallets or crates, paint containers, fluorescent bulbs and ballasts[both PCB and DEHP ballasts], waste oil, construction debris, dunnage [wood used in packing crated material], Chemical Warfare Material: HD, GB, CK, CG, CX, AC as well as decon solutions – STB [super tropical bleach] and DS2, drums , metal poles, lights, an automobile, pesticides, herbicides, marking paint, paint spray guns, paint thinner, Tordon pellets, smoke grenades, white phosphorus grenades, high explosive rounds, fog oil, dental amalgams and x-rays, caustic, bleach, DS2 HTH, silver fluoride, silver nitrate, buffer solutions, CDTF wastewater, 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of regulated medical waste per month including cultures, stocks of infectious agents, pathological wastes, human blood, blood products, used sharps, isolation wastes, unused sharps, reactive waste, blank rifle ammunition, excess increments (propellant packs), demolition of grenades, small arms ammunition, artillery rounds, land mines, pyrotechnics – including one 800-lb shot of dynamite detonated, diesel fuel, gasoline, packing wastes with refuse (e.g ., ammunition storage boxes, crates), C4.
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