[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP, HOUSING: Taku Gardens, Ft. Wainwright (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army deems once-contaminated Fort Wainwright housing site clean

By Rena Delbridge
Fairbanks News-Miner (AK)
June 3, 2009

FAIRBANKS - In a year and a half, contractors culled more than 300 tons 
of scrap metal, dug out 1,000 tar and petroleum drums, and hauled 3,000 
cubic yards of contaminated soil from a Fort Wainwright site destined 
for duplexes.

The metal was a mix of training munitions, inert bombs, tank treads, old 
rocket fins and parts of bazooka rounds.

The contaminant was PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyls, no longer 
produced in the U.S. and highly dangerous to humans.

But after a year and a half of intensive remediation with a roughly $15 
million price tag, the Army is confident troops and their families 
housed at Taku Gardens will be in some of the safest quarters around. 
The neighborhood should open its doors in 2010.

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For the entire article, see
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jun/03/army-deems-once-contaminated-fort-wainwright-housi/

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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
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