Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) is a

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post in

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. 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

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. 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. Defense

Facilities

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

BRAC 2005

TEAD will gain the ammunition storage function from

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, which will be realigning due to

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2005.

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. TooeleArmyDepot

References

External links

Tooele Army Depot websiteJoint Munitions Command website
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