2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 20 Jun 2006 06:32:55 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Kodiak (AK) former defense sites
 
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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