Concord Naval Weapons Station
The Concord Naval Weapons Station was a 1942 for the Second World War built, large ammunition depot of the US Navy in Concord , Contra Costa County , California , in the ammunition for the Pacific Fleet of the United States for its war against Japan delivered by rail, stored and Port Chicago was transferred to ships.
The base is divided into a coastal area of 7,360 acres consisting of islands in and marshland on Suisun Bay with three large piers and an inland area of 5,170 acres about 2 miles south of it with warehouses and ammunition bunkers. The ammunition depot was used by the Navy until the Gulf War, during which thousands of tons of ammunition were still being shipped to the Middle East. Subsequently, the station was used less and less and since 1999 it has been manned very little. The inland facilities were increasingly shut down. Under the Base Realignment and Closure program of 2005, the coastal area was to be transferred from the Navy to the Army and the inland area was designated for civilian use.
In 2008 the coastal area of the base was handed over to the US Army , more precisely to the 834th Transportation Battalion of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC). The base was merged with the neighboring Military Ocean Terminal Concord . The inland area became a branch of Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach until it was closed in 2005 .
At the initiative of the City of Concord and Mercedes-Benz, 2,100 acres of the inland site with a road network of 19.6 miles of paved roads were designated as the GoMentum Station car test area for autonomous and connected driving. Further projects for the conversion of the site are being developed.
history
A significant single event at the base was the Port Chicago Disaster , a major explosion that occurred on July 17, 1944. When ammunition was being loaded onto cargo ships , it exploded, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 400 others.
Web links
- Naval Weapons Station (NAVWPNSTA) Port Chicago Naval Magazine, Concord, California on globalsecurity.org; accessed on January 15, 2016
Video
- Honda film about an autonomous test drive by the company on the premises of the GoMentum station , the civil subsequent use for the domestic area from 23 July 2015; accessed on January 15, 2016 - offers interesting insights into the area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.concordnws.com/info.htm ; accessed on January 15, 2016
- ↑ http://www.army.mil/article/13824/sddc-officially-accepts-former-us-navy-real-estate ; accessed on January 15, 2016
- ^ Contra Costa Transportation Authority: Self-Driving Cars Headed to Contra Costa; October 1, 2014 ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on January 15, 2016
- ↑ http://www.concordreuseproject.org/ ; accessed on November 16, 2016
Coordinates: 37 ° 59 ′ 39 ″ N , 121 ° 58 ′ 58 ″ W.