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Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) is a
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post in
Tooele County, Utah Tooele County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 72,698. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele, Utah, Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organ ...
. It serves as a storage site for war reserve and training ammunition. The depot stores, issues, receives, renovates, modifies, maintains and demilitarizes conventional munitions. The depot also serves as the National Inventory Control Point for ammunition-peculiar equipment, developing, fabricating, modifying, storing and distributing such equipment to all services and other customers worldwide. TEAD provides base support to Deseret Chemical Depot. Tooele Army Depot originally opened in 1942 during the early phase of U.S. involvement in
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. The workforce at the post is now primarily composed of civilians. A full colonel serves as the commander. Colonel Eric B. Dennis is the depot's commander.


Capabilities

Capabilities of the depot include: engineering; explosives performance testing; logistical support; machining, fabrication, assembly, repair; robotics; non-destructive testing; demilitarization; laser cutting; and Slurry Emulsion Manufacturing Facility.


History

Built in 1942, TEAD was originally called the Tooele Ordnance Depot and was a storage depot for war supplies. In 1988, TEAD acquired the general supply storage mission from Pueblo Army Depot. In 1955 Tooele Army Depot took over the rail equipment repair shop at
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near Roy, Utah; and the site operated as a satellite of TEAD until 1994. In BRAC 1993, it lost its troop support mission, maintenance and storage missions. TEAD retained its ammunition logistics support function.


Facilities

TEAD is housed on with 1,093 buildings, 902 igloos and storage capacity of .


BRAC 1995

TEAD gained the ammunition storage function from Sierra Army Depot, which was realigned due to
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Environment

TEAD was placed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priority List (Superfund) in 1990. In 2009, the Tooele Army Depot was awarded the 31st Annual Secretary of the Army Energy and Water Management Award and the 2009 Federal Energy and Water Management Award.TEAD team wins Federal Energy Conservation Award
/ref> This was based on conservation efforts which saved TEAD more than $60,000 and nearly 100 million gallons of water per year.


See also

* Deseret Chemical Depot *
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Dugway Proving Ground Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and south of the Utah Test and Training Range. Location Dugway Provin ...
* Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility *
Umatilla Chemical Depot The Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD), based in Umatilla, Oregon, was a U.S. Army installation in the United States that stored chemical weapons. The chemical weapons originally stored at the depot consisted of various live munitions and storag ...
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Porton Down Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury. It is home to two British government facilities: a site of the Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and ...
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Edgewood Chemical Activity The Edgewood Chemical Activity (abbreviated ECA) was a U.S. Army site located in Edgewood, Maryland that stored chemical weapons. Its construction was started by Ordnance Corps in November 1917 and completed in less than a year. The arsenal was ...
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Dzerzhinsk, Russia Dzerzhinsk ( rus, Дзержи́нск, p=dzʲɪrˈʐɨnsk) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Oka River, about east of Moscow and west of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: It ...
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Pine Bluff Arsenal The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a United States Army installation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, about eight miles northwest of Pine Bluff and thirty miles southeast of Little Rock. Pine Bluff Arsenal is one of nine Army installations in the United ...


References


External links


Tooele Army Depot websiteJoint Munitions Command website
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