[CPEO-BIF] "Unalaska [Alaska] hears on community-driven brownfield reclamation"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Unalaska hears on community-driven brownfield reclamation

By Greta Mart
KUCB - Unalaska (AK) 
November 18, 2015


Out of over 7,400 contaminated sites around Alaska, a hundred are in Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. That’s among the highest concentration of contaminated sites in the state, besides Adak.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) runs the state’s contaminated sites program. The program is aimed at managing the cleanup of places where the soil and groundwater are polluted, and the DEC maintains a database of all these sites. A particular site is on list if it is a location “where hazardous substances, including petroleum products, have been improperly disposed, spilled or leaked form their containers,” according to the DEC. Many of the sites were contaminated during World War II and the 1950s and ’60s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/11/18/community-group-envisions-transformation-of-contaminated-lands/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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