[CPEO-MEF] Kodiak (AK) air injection

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Forced air may clean old spills
KODIAK: Oxygen could spur bacteria to consume petroleum.

By SCOTT CHRISTIANSEN
Kodiak Daily Mirror/Anchorage Daily News (AK)	
June 27, 2006

KODIAK -- This summer on two plots of land on Kodiak, 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 to continue 
cleanup projects at some of the island'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 whether 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.adn.com/news/environment/story/7905212p-7798836c.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
http://www.cpeo.org

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