[CPEO-MEF] Alaskan - old military dumps and radar stations

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fierce erosion sweeps wastes into Alaska waters


By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
January 18, 2008

In some of Alaska's most isolated spots, toxic waste and old community 
dumps are eroding into the ocean or rivers.The military is spending 
millions to stop the junk from entering the water - for example, moving 
entire Cold War-era landfills that teeter on the edge of the crumbling 
Beaufort Sea coast.

But at other eroding dumps - in particular, those in tiny villages with 
limited funds or on old military sites that don't qualify for federal 
cleanup dollars - a cleanup is elusive.

The dumps are in more danger than they were a few years earlier ago 
because of the increased rate of erosion in many areas along Alaska's 
coast, state officials say.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/189/story/287263.html


See also

Radar stations outlive their usefulness


By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
January 18, 2008

The Air Force is cleaning up contamination at old radar stations along 
the Arctic Coast, but not all of them are threatened by erosion.Many 
radar stations are getting closed because they are no longer useful, 
according to the Air Force.

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line stations were built in the 1950s to 
provide the first alert of an "over the pole" invasion from the former 
Soviet Union.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.adn.com/264/story/287270.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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