Warendorf, as you know the depot was opened in 1976, there were about 36 officers and men, RAOC, commanded by a major. The rest of the staff were civilian about 50 locally employed and a further thirty or so from the then Mobile Civilian Work Group (MCTG) which travelled by bus to the depot each day from Munster. The depot was divided into two areas, the actual petroleum depot and the administration area. The MCTG were employed to work in the depot, general labouring, unloading the vast quantities of packed POL products from the UK and working on the jerry can filling plant, which supplied to whole of BFG Holland and Belgium with packed fuel, including the forward storage dumps.

There were few facilities at Waf, a civilian run cookhouse, which supplied meals for both mil and civ. The military were quartered in Munster, with the few single soldiers barracked in Portsmouth Bks, Munster.

The depot had its share of pollution problems, although not well documented. The depot did not produce any fuel, though it carried out all flushing/change of grades of fuels in TTF's/Ubre's and AAC TAR's. The smell in the summer months could be quite obnoxious. There were the odd overfills of tanks and tankers, but in those day's you could get away with most things.

The main problem from the outside community were from the towns of Freckenhorst and Everswinkel, there were a number of accidents especially in winter involving tankers, this lead to a ban of tankers in the end through the town of Freckenhorst.

The Depot at Warendorf was built next to the NATO CEPS Depot, although this was called CEPS Munster. They were both built in a woodland area. The CEPS pipeline then carried on east to Gütersloh and then further to a spur near Detmold. You are probably right about being behind the route 2. We had our measures to make sure the Ruskies would not get the fuel.

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