[CPEO-MEF] Kodiak (AK) former defense sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps of Engineers continues Kodiak military cleanup using new device


By SCOTT CHRISTIANSEN
Kodiak Mirror (AK)
June 19, 2006


This summer on two plots of land on Kodiak Island, contractors working 
for the government will install wellheads, not to extract water or 
precious oil and gas, but to inject air into the ground.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is returning to Kodiak this summer to 
continue cleanup projects at some of Kodiak's former military sites. Two 
of those sites — one near the Alaska Department of Transportation 
building on Anton Larsen Bay Road, the other on one corner of Air 
Station Kodiak — have oil trapped in the wet soil atop their bedrock, 
the result of decades worth of tiny spills.

The air-injection wells are a test, meant to see if adding oxygen to the 
ground will encourage oil-eating bacteria already present in the soil to 
thrive and eat up that oil.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=3289
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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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