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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.