Arctic Surplus yard cleaned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Superfund site gets clean bill 

By DIANA CAMPBELL
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)
June 24, 2004 

What once was a hazard for children to play on is now a prime piece of
industrial real estate, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said
about a Badger Road Superfund site Wednesday.

And it only cost $23.5 million to make it that way.

"The good news is the site is now cleaned up and no longer poses a
threat to the community," said Neil Thompson of the EPA. 

The EPA was in town to note the conclusion of the cleanup of the Arctic
Surplus scrap yard in a public meeting Wednesday, but the only people
that showed up were a half a dozen workers from various government agencies.

"It's a good cleanup, long overdue," said Tamar Stephens, an
environmental specialist with the Department of Environmental
Conservation, who attended the meeting at the Noel Wien Library. 

The Arctic Surplus property, 24.5 acres owned by two North Pole men, was
declared an EPA Superfund site in 1989. It was used as a scrap and
salvage yard, with most of the materials coming from the Defense
Reutilization and Marketing Office. The site contained transformers
containing oils with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, lead battery
casings, paints and solvents with hazardous chemicals. The EPA said the
military was partly responsible for the contamination. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2232393,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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