Newport, Indiana is one step closer to saying goodbye to the deadly nerve agent VX.

Two towers toppled over Tuesday at the Newport Chemical Depot, all in part to get closer to the destruction date, which is only around 90 days away. 

The job of disposing it all has become a big one.

Although it's getting there one step at a time, for residents like Leoanrd Akers who used to work at the Depot, it's just not fast enough.

"Well I've got this t-shirt at home that went out to all of us construction workers, that said 'On-line, on-time July 2003', I was going to wear it tonight, but you tell me whether we're on schedule or not," says Leonard Akers.

But right now, the Army says they're on time and on schedule.

Soon preparation and certification will be done for the workers involved.

And then the chemical will be stored in a container that will hold 5,000 gallons, until it's transported.

The Project Manager Jeffrey Brubaker says, the destruction will begin in September.

"The agent is destroyed at Newport the resulting product is a caustic waste water," says Brubaker.

Although the waste water needs to find a home, the goal is to ship it to New Jersey, and release the treated waste into the Delaware River.

But that plan is still in the works, because a lot of people don't want the waste, something some residents here don't feel is safe.

"I don't want it to leave that gate. There's some unanswered questions as far as the hydrolysate is concerned, plus I don't think we have the right to force it on someone else that does not want it," worries Akers.

The destruction is supposed to start in September and is estimated to take as long as 24 to 30 months.

The project is expected to be done in April of 2007.