What's new with CSEPP or the Umatilla Chemical Depot?

Annual emergency preparedness drill slated May 5-7
          Emergency management officials in Umatilla, Morrow, and Benton counties, the states of Washington and Oregon and the Army's Umatilla Chemical Depot will hold an annual Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program drill May 5-7.
         The drill will start on Monday, May 5, with a simulated chemical emergency at the Umatilla Chemical Depot and demonstrate emergency preparedness and recovery activities at the counties and two states surrounding the depot.
         Unlike past years, this year's annual CSEPP exercise, called the Umatilla Vignette of the Pacific Northwest Venue of National Level 2-08, Service Response Force Exercise, will extend for three days. The first day will center on response activities and the following two days will focus on reentry and recovery activities. Emergency planners
increased the drill to three days because of the size and scope of the exercise linked to other test exercise events in the Northwest and nationally. A longer exercise will allow planners to focus on recovery issues as well. The other Pacific Northwest drills will be conducted in the Seattle and Bellingham, Wash., areas starting May 1.

• Umatilla Weekly Project Update  (May 1, 2008)

• Umatilla Depot begins VX Artillery Projectiles Disposal Campaign
  A new chemical weapons disposal campaign began at about 9:30 a.m. this morning when Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD) workers began moving VX 155mm diameter VX-filled artillery projectiles to the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF). 

       

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