[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: Drury Gulch, Kodiak (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps ends decontamination of WWII dumping site near Base


By ELIZABETH CALDWELL
Kodiak Daily Mirror (AK)
October 3, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that it completed a 
five-year clean up of Kodiak’s Drury Gulch, a polychlorinated biphenyl 
(PCB) contaminated site near the Coast Guard Base used as a dumping 
ground during World War II.

Project manager Charley Peyton said most of the PCBs came from buried 
electrical equipment.

"The containers themselves were broken open or literally dumped out in 
the ground," Peyton said. "Unfortunately, it was a common disposal 
practice back then."

Some wrecked aircraft engines also contributed a smaller quantity of PCBs.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=6775

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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
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