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  Hawthorne
Hawthorne, Nevada Hawthorne is a town located in Hawthorne Army Depot is the primary economic base of the town.
Hawthorne, Wisconsin Hawthorne is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,045.
Hawthorne Bridge Hawthorne Bridge is a vertical-lift bridges spanning the Willamette in the Portland area and frequently...
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 Composting Removes Explosives Cost Effectively   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Hawthorne Army Depot is in the process of cleaning up soil containing small concentrations of explosives frorn decades of operations, and it is using bioremediation, or cleanup through the use of biological organisms, to get the job done.
Hawthorne then disposed of the explosives-containing water in unlined catchment pits dug into the soil next to the buildings where the operations took place.
Hawthorne Army Depot has purchased 3,850 tons of potatoes, 24,000 tons of steer manure and 1,200 tons of alfalfa from ranchers and farmers in Nevada and Oregon for the bioremediation project.
aec.army.mil /usaec/publicaffairs/update/win00/win0012.htm   (417 words)

  
 Depot
Chester-Chester Depot, Vermont Chester-Chester Depot is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population o...
Depot channel A depot channel is a channel on an IRC network where you can use the @find command.
Suffield Depot, Connecticut Suffield Depot is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,244.
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 Hawthorne Army Depot
Hawthorne Army Depot is located in the west central part of Nevada close to the California state line.
Hawthorne covers approximately 226 square miles, providing ample room for expansion, and is divided into three ammunition storage and production areas, plus an industrial area housing command headquarters, facilities engineering shops, etc. HWAD claims to be the "Worlds Largest Depot" and is the largest industrial activity in the state of Nevada.
Hawthorne Army Depot had infrastructure problems that severely limited the ability to offload.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/hawthorne.htm   (1187 words)

  
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Letterkenny Army Depot, PA - The depot's flexibility and adaptability are demonstrated by performing a variety of electronic, mechanical, hydraulic, and ammunition missions.
Savanna Army Depot, IL - The depot's current mission is to provide storage support and issue functions for Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, and GSA materiel; store, maintain, and issue strategic and critical materiel and transition into BRAC related functions as the storage and issue mission is depleted.
Tobyhanna Army Depot, PA - Tobyhanna Army Depot, a major element of the Communications-Electronics Command is the largest and most progressive communications-electronics repair, overhaul and fabrication facility in the Department of Defense.
www.armysites.com /Installations/Depots   (437 words)

  
 Hawthorne, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hawthorne is a census-designated place located in Mineral County, Nevada.
The nearby Hawthorne Army Depot is the primary economic base of the town.
Hawthorne is located at 38°31'31" North, 118°37'23" West (38.525198, -118.623053)
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 Ammunition Logistics for Operation Noble Anvil
Forty-five Army reservists from the 802d Ordnance Company, Gainesville, Georgia; the 3d Corps Support Command, Des Moines, Iowa; the 125th Ordnance Battalion, Billings, Montana; and the 351st Ordnance Company (Ammunition), Romney, West Virginia, were diverted from Operation Golden Cargo to Hawthorne Army Depot to assist with the outloading.
The Army reservists proved to be invaluable and stayed to assist the depot with loading containers destined for Korea before returning to their home stations on 10 June.
Hawthorne experienced a high rejection rate on both the CADS and the leased containers they received, which impeded their container-loading operations.
www.almc.army.mil /ALOG/issues/MarApr00/MS522.htm   (2371 words)

  
 reviewjournal.com -- News: Hawthorne residents plead to keep Army depot open
HAWTHORNE -- More than 600 residents and employees of the Hawthorne Army Depot crowded into the Mineral County High School gym here Monday to ask federal officials not to close the installation, which they called the lifeblood of the community.
Army Depot employee Debbie Sitton said her children are safe walking the streets of the small town 133 miles southeast of Reno.
Under the Pentagon's realignment plan, the Army's ammunition depot near Hawthorne is slated for closure, and all eight C-130 aircraft operated by the Nevada Air National Guard's airlift wing at Reno-Tahoe International Airport are to be transferred to another state.
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2005/Jul-12-Tue-2005/news/26869227.html   (897 words)

  
 CNN.com - Nevada community looks beyond bombs - Apr. 30, 2003
Hawthorne Army Depot's 147,000 acres comprise the nation's largest munitions storage capacity.
Hawthorne is gearing up for its 52nd annual Armed Forces Day parade, and travelers on the main highway through town are greeted by an antique howitzer and a makeshift windmill crafted from red, white and blue-painted bomb fins.
He is looking to turn Hawthorne into a Western operations center for the Department of Homeland Security, and he is overseeing preliminary testing this summer to determine whether the depot sits on a geothermal energy lode.
www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/04/30/hawthorne.bombs.ap   (797 words)

  
 Military World Links: Government/Military/Army/Installations/Depots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Letterkenny Army Depot`` PA- The depot's flexibility and adaptability are demonstrated by performing a variety of electronic`` mechanical`` hydraulic`` and ammunition missions.
Savanna Army Depot`` IL- The depot's current mission is to provide storage support and issue functions for Army`` Navy`` Air Force`` Marine`` and GSA materiel; store`` maintain`` and issue strategic and critical materiel and transition into BRAC related functions as the storage and issue mission is depleted.
Tobyhanna Army Depot`` PA- Tobyhanna Army Depot`` a major element of the Communications-Electronics Command is the largest and most progressive communications-electronics repair`` overhaul and fabrication facility in the Department of Defense.
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 Lassen County History and Culture: Sierra Army Depot Historic American Engineering Record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sierra Army Depot is located on 36,322 acres adjacent to Honey Lake in Lassen County, California, midway between Reno, Nevada and Susanville, California.
To rectify the lack of adequate housing for depot workers, the town of Herlong was built south of Susanville Road between 1942 and 1944.
Army Regulation 420-40 requires that an historic preservation plan be developed as an integral part of each installation's planning and long range maintenance and development scheduling.
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 A Brief History of Army Depots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The U.S. Army MIDA was disestablished and all its functions were assumed by DESCOM, when it assumed command and control of the U.S. Army Depots.
The Army concluded the projected ground systems and equipment depot maintenance workload for FY 1999 was not sufficient enough to maintain all the ground systems and equipment depots.
Tooele Army Depot transferred the remaining BRAC parcel consisting of 1,621 acres and 258 buildings to Tooele City, Utah on December 18, 1998.
www.amc.army.mil /amc/ho/studies/depot_history2.html   (2541 words)

  
 Hawthorne Army Depot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Hawthorne Army Depot is a huge ammunition storage site located near the town of Hawthorne in in western Nevada in the United States.
The Hawthorne Army Depot stores reserve munitions to be used after the first 30 days of a major conflict.
As such, it is only partially staffed during peacetime, but provision has been made to rapidly expand staffing as necessary.
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 Las Vegas SUN: Base closing commission votes to save Hawthorne Army Depot
The Pentagon had projected that 199 jobs would be directly lost through closure of the ammunition depot in the small desert town of Hawthorne.
Commission staff members said the depot is filled to about 56 percent capacity, and said the extra space might be needed for surplus munitions being returned from Korea and Southwest Asia - another consideration the Pentagon didn't sufficiently weigh, they said.
Base closing staff members also said the depot in Tooele doesn't have enough capacity to take the additional munitions if Hawthorne were closed.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/aug/24/082410078.html   (498 words)

  
 M687 155mm Projectile
In the 1980s, the Army developed binary chemical munitions to replace its aging chemical weapons stockpile.
The U.S. Army plans to recover and recycle the projectile body and one of the non-lethal liquid compound canisters (designated as the M21 OPA canister).
Hawthorne Army Depot, located approximately 140 miles southeast of Carson City, was selected because of its unique capabilities to recover and recycle these various components safely.
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 Bombs to the Balkans
One place where this phenomenon of war could be observed was Hawthorne Army Depot, Nevada, which became a beehive of activity thanks to the Air Force's need for munitions.
For many people taking part in the operation, it was the first time they had loaded munitions that would be used in a combat situation, and the serious nature of their work was etched on their faces.
In addition, the entire depot's bunkers are constructed in such a manner that, if there is an accident, the force of the explosion will be directed upward and away from the surrounding storage area.
www.almc.army.mil /ALOG/issues/SepOct99/MS486.htm   (1227 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Panel votes to save Hawthorne Army Depot
The Pentagon had recommended that Hawthorne close and its massive munitions holdings be shipped to Tooele Army Depot in Utah, a smaller facility.
Hawthorne, roughly 300 miles northwest of Las Vegas, claims to be the world's largest depot, with roughly 2,400 bunkers and 178 buildings for ammunition storage, currently filled to about 56 percent capacity, or roughly 300,000 tons.
The Defense Department did not adequately consider the strategic value of Hawthorne, considered by the Pentagon to be the No. 1 depot in the nation for "demilitarization" of munitions, and No. 2 for storage.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sun/2005/aug/25/519257838.html   (793 words)

  
 Nevada Town Clings to Targeted Army Depot (phillyBurbs.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Supporters of the Hawthorne depot say the BRAC recommendation grossly underestimates the facility's economic impact on the town and neglects cleanup costs that would total more than $400 million.
The depot's 534 workers are nearly half of the town's 1,200-member work force, and the depot also accounts for many indirect support jobs in the community.
Hawthorne has been hanging by frayed economic threads for years because of the drought-threatened fishery in scenic but shrinking Walker Lake, mine closures and layoffs at the depot.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/1-05292005-495435.html   (723 words)

  
 Nevada, Division of Environmental Protection -- DoD Letters
The Hawthorne Army Depot became the nation's primary munitions manufacture and storage facility in the 1930's after the explosion of a munitions factory on the populous East Coast.
The Depot, and the nearby towns of Hawthorne and Babbitt, reached their peak of population and activity in the 1940's during World War II.
Due to the proximity of the old landfill to the town of Hawthorne (approximately a quarter mile from the western edge of town), illegal dumping continued to be a problem even after the landfill was closed by the County in 1972.
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 Gov. Guinn Statement on Death of Marine CPL. Jesse Jaime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
However, the Hawthorne Army Depot has the largest, most diverse, environmentally compliant state-of-the-art military munitions dismantling facility in the depot system.
I also believe the statistical data concerning Hawthorne is sufficiently flawed to warrant full re-consideration of the decision to close the depot.
Additionally, several current joint functions of the Hawthorne Army Depot were not cited and are assumed to have not been considered in the process.
gov.state.nv.us /pr/2005/PR_2005-06-24_BRACHEARING.htm   (1220 words)

  
 KOLO | Hawthorne Depot Holds Munitions for U.S. Forces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Hawthorne would seem a world removed from the front line, but look closer, you'll see hundreds, actually more than 2,000 low-lying bunkers spaced across this valley.
The choice of location may seem odd, but, in fact, it was well-chosen as this is the ideal climate.
This war hasn't relied as much on Hawthorne's stores, but it’s likely U.S. forces are using ammunition today that once waited here.
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This plan is practical for the Army, safe for human health, and good for the environment.
It also continues the Hawthorne Army Depot's long tradition of working with cutting edge technology to help our country.
$550,000- for a rotary furnace at the Hawthorne Army Depot, to dispose of munitions in an environmentally friendly way to protect the health and safety of the people in the area.
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 Encyclopedia: Hawthorne Army Depot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Ammunition Tiering Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
West - Tooele Army Depot, UT Tier II facilities store War Reserve ammunition to be used after the first 30 days.
Letterkenny Army Depot, PA Central - Red River Army Depot, TX West - Hawthorne Army Depot, NV Note: Anniston, Letterkenny and Red River operate as Tier I facilities for missiles.
East - Seneca Army Depot Activity, NY Central - Savanna Army Depot Activity, IL West - Sierra Army Depot, CA Full implementation of the tiering plan is expected to take six years, at which time the BRAC-95 closures will be complete.
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 Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
RENO - Nevada government and military officials remain cautiously optimistic that the Hawthorne Army Depot and the Reno Guard Air Base might be spared from closing and downsizing after a member of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission visits the two installations this week.
Philip Coyle, one of nine members of the BRAC, toured the Hawthorne Army base Monday, which has been recommended for closure, and the Reno Air Guard facility, which would lose its eight C-130 cargo aircraft.
McGinness, who represents Hawthorne and Mineral County in the Legislature - along with several other rural Nevada counties - said the Pentagon's recommendations did not accurately reflect the economic impact, cost savings and military importance of the two bases should they be closed and downsized.
www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2005/07/13/news/hawthorne.html   (333 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons at ...
Hydrolysis of energetics as a means of disposal is being used at the Hawthorne Army Depot.
Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons at Pueblo Chemical Depot reenters the reactor vessel at the bottom a dual-flight, Hastelloy C, variable-speed agitator in the reactor vessel a condenser/scrubber for off-gases pH-, temperature-, and flowmeters The energetic feeder is a single-screw, loss-in-weight feeder with a 500 lb/hr capacity.
The Army expects the time required for addition of the energetic materials to be inconsequential when compared with the total processing time required for the hydrolysis reaction.
www.nap.edu /books/0309076072/html/17.html   (7022 words)

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