[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Duncan Canal Air Force communications site (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force proposes clean up for communications site

Joe Viechnicki
KFSK Radio (AK)
October 29, 2010

PETERSBURG, AK - A contractor for the U.S. Air Force could be removing 
contaminated soil and debris from a former military communications site 
in Duncan Canal near Petersburg next summer or fall. The site was a 
manned communications station, part of a Cold War-era early warning 
system called White Alice used to relay radio communications from Clear 
Air Force base in Alaska to Colorado Springs fifty years ago. It's on 
Kupreanof Island, just south of Ohmer Slough on Duncan Canal, about 
eight miles west of Petersburg.

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For the entire story, including a streamed interview, see
http://kfsk.org/modules/local_news/index.php?op=sideBlock&ID=821

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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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