[CPEO-MEF] Army Corps searches for Agent Orange in Tok (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army Corp to search for buried Agent Orange

By Eric Lidji
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)
July 24, 2007

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska will start digging in Tok 
this summer to look for six barrels of the dangerous herbicide Agent 
Orange presumed to have been buried in the area nearly 40 years ago.

The Army Corps learned about the barrels in 2002, when a former 
Department of Defense employee claimed to have been on a team ordered by 
the Army in the late 1960s to bury the 55-gallon barrels of Agent Orange 
at what was then a military equipment yard in Tok, around 200 miles 
southeast of Fairbanks.

Electromagnetic surveys in the area last summer detected something, 
possibly barrels, buried about 6 or 7 feet below ground in an area of 
town less than a mile from the Alaska Highway. The Army Corps will dig 
in the area to look for the barrels starting this summer and possibly 
extending into next summer.

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For the entire article, see
http://newsminer.com/2007/07/24/8078

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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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