Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Indiana

A former munitions plant and chemical weapons stockpile site, Newport was the chief location for the production of TNT, heavy water, and - until 1968 - VX nerve agent.  The Newport Army Ammunition Plant changed its name to the Newport Chemical Depot in 1995, when the U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command took over management. The depot was slated for closure by BRAC in 2005. Destruction of the VX stockpile began in 2005 at a facility on site called the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (NECDF), and continued until 2008. The NECDF was officially decommissioned in 2010. Soil and groundwater remediation efforts on the 7,104 acre site were completed in 2014. The bulk of the site has now been transferred to the Newport Chemical Depot Reuse Authority, whose mission is to actively promote the former military site as a new civilian business and technology center called Vermillion Rise.