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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 15 > Blocked pipes are blamed for smoke at chemical depot

Blocked pipes are blamed for smoke at chemical depot

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
May 15, 2008

HERMISTON — Blocked pipes have been blamed for smoke that filled a small area of an incinerator plant at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Hermiston on Wednesday.

The depot is disposing of deadly VX nerve agent left over from the Cold War. It burned its stockpile of sarin nerve gas, even....

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