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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army to host meeting on empty Fort Wainwright housing development

Fairbanks News-Miner (AK)
January 13, 2013

FAIRBANKS - The U.S. Army is holding a public meeting Tuesday to talk  
about the future of Taku Gardens, a $55 million housing development  
on Fort Wainwright that has been siting empty for seven years after  
toxic waste was found buried on the building site.

The Army has spent more than $21 million cleaning up the Superfund  
site after toxic PCBs were discovered in 2005 when contractors  
breaking ground to do foundation work reported a chemical odor in the  
soil.

...

The Army is hoping to move soldiers into the empty housing project  
this coming summer and the goal of Tuesday’s meeting is to gather  
public comment that can be incorporated into the final record of  
decision, said Joe Malen, environmental restoration program manager  
for the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Wainwright. The comment deadline  
is Feb. 12.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/article_64c3a7ae-5d5e-11e2- 
b96d-0019bb30f31a.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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