Camp Minden

After a briefing this morning, the burn chamber is back on the move in Bossier Parish headed for Camp Minden.

Expect travel delays and power outages as the chamber moves through NWLA.

Some Shreveport-area residents will be without power briefly during the transport of an incinerator to Camp Minden.

Several local leaders gathered out at Camp Minden to get a look at the plan for getting rid of millions of pounds of M6 propellant.

A Louisiana National Guard spokesman says it will probably take six months of work before crews can begin burning 7,800 tons of artillery propellant at Camp Minden. Col. Pete Schneider tells The Times that an Oklahoma company recently won the contract to build the device to contain pollutants when the M6 propellant is burned...

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an order to the U-S Army to address 15-million pounds of abandoned explosives and propellant stored on the grounds of Camp Minden.

It's taken six months, but the Louisiana State Police Emergency Services Unit and Explo Systems employees have finally moved and safely stored all of the improperly-stored propellant at Camp Minden.

Doyline schoolkids face longer days, makeups from closure due to Camp Minden evacuation.

It looks as though an end is in sight to the moving of roughly six million pounds of explosive propellant at Camp Minden in Webster Parish.

About half the dangerous materials have been properly stored or moved out of the area.