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Camp Arifjan study changes safety rules for ammunition storage sites
Army Logistician, July-August, 2007
A review of plans for storing ammunition at the Theater Storage Area at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, has led to a significant change in the rules for constructing safety barricades at ammunition storage sites. The review, initiated by the Army Defense Ammunition Center (DAC) at McAlester, Oklahoma, reevaluated Department of Defense (DOD) and Army explosives safety regulations that required the height of a barricade to be 2 degrees above stacks of ammunition when drawn from the rear of the stacks. Applying this rule to the 25 720-foot-long ammunition storage pads at Camp Arifjan meant that 36-foot-tall barricades would have been required. Employees at DAC's Army Technical Center for Explosives Safety questioned the need for 36-foot-high barricades to protect adjacent ammunition storage sites that were 477 feet apart.
A series of trajectory analyses using DOD-approved explosion software models showed that barricades with a height extending 1 foot above the line of sight between two ammunition stacks will protect adjacent ammunition storage sites from the spread, or propagation, of detonations at one stack. As a result, the armed services and the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board have voted to adopt a requirement that barricade heights be 1 foot above the line of sight between ammunition stacks (1 foot above the height of the stacks).
Because of this change, an estimated $67 million will be saved over the next 3 years through reductions in the height and footprint of barricades and the amount of dirt required for barricade construction.
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