Wednesday August 11, 2004
Tooele
incinerator restarted after 3 weeks
The Army on Tuesday restarted one of its incinerators that had been shut
down for three weeks at the Tooele Deseret Chemical Depot.
Officials stopped processing operations in a liquid incinerator July 17 after
one of two of the detection monitors located a suspicious substance on the
main furnace exhaust stack.
Plant systems contractor EG&G Defense Materials Inc., the U.S. Army and
state regulators decided to restart the furnace after it turned out that
the unidentified substance was an electrical cord and maintenance light,
which had been inadvertently left in a duct following recent refractory brick
replacement work.