Talk:Fort Gillem

Contradiction

"It will likely not be closed due to hazardous materials that are stored permanently underground on the facility. Most of Fort Gillem was closed and an enclavement was left for the United States Army Reserves." - this makes little sense? BabyNuke (talk) 05:46, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

deletion of large sections of unreferenced material under env contamination

I understand that unreferenced material violates the WP:verfiability rule. But something tells me that 108.224.78.59, that added this, told things he knew, but couldnt do any better. I think that valuable nuggets of info are there, which just have to be researched. Therefore, I didnt flag it and I didnt delete it at the time. I see today, that Ckelling08 did. Of course I cant revert that but I will paste the 2 sections here, for people who may want to research and back up the facts herein:

"The Base contained landfills that were very specific in nature. There are several Explosive Ordinances that contained Chemical Agents such a Nerve Agents and even blister agents. One specific case includes a Mustard Gas Bomb that was seized from Nazi Germany. This is one of the few actual cases that the memorandum of record from the Department of Defense had been declassified. In 2003 several residential homes and households that were in proximity to the Fort Gillem Base Perimeter began getting sick. The source of origin was the well water. What actually occurred was that for Gillem was being used as a facility to take samples of chemical weapons that were being seized from Nazi Germany, and the Govt was trying to re-created such chemical weapons. There are actually two sewage plants at Fort Gillem. This is suspicious because the size of for Gillem is not that large. So the need to have two sewage plants certainly raises red flag. What certain subject matter experts believe is that one sewage plant was utilized for sewage purposes. The second sewage plant was being utilized to dilute the chemicals and other hazardous materials that were being created to replicate the chemical agents that had been seized from Nazi Germany. Once the chemicals were diluted they were poured back into the ground. There are several unaccounted for munitions and other chemicals that were buried all over Fort Gillem. Bunkers on Fort Gillem contained nerve agents and before the base was officially closed the munitions were taken by a specialized unit, Tech- Escort (CBRNE) to an undisclosed location. More than likely the munitions were taken to a facility called the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant for observation, quarantine, and demilitarization. There are also 5 other obsolete bunkers on the active portion of Fort Gillem. Contrary to popular belief, Fort Gillem is still in use today. The bunkers subsequently collapsed from within and imploded. The contents of the bunkers and whether or not munitions or chemical agents were stored is still unknown to date. The Dept of Defense has denied access to the area for several safety reasons. The bunkers are within a short range of occupied areas of human life. Exploitation of those bunkers could be very costly and dangerous.

The US Army had originally offered to give Fort Gillem to the Georgia Army National Guard. This is usually a common practice. The Georgia Army National Guard was aware of such contamination and also aware the US Army Corps of Engineers had estimated that it would cost approx. (1) billion dollars in tax money to environmentally remediate the base. Therefore the base was closed and for some strange reason the Army authorized the Base to be divided into 2 sections. The first section contains the only US Army Crime lab. The second section that was closed down is now being sold to companies like Kroger. Kroger is now planning to make a food distribution center on top of what is expected to be the most contaminated area of Fort Gillem.

--Wuerzele (talk) 07:13, 17 November 2014 (UTC)