[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Northeast Cape, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Savoonga Residents Frustrated With Cleanup Process of Former Military  
Site at Northeast Cape

By Jenn Ruckel
KNOM Radio (AK)
February 6, 2015

Northeast Cape is a Formerly Used Defense Site situated on the  
eastern tip of St. Lawrence Island. A former subsistence camp for  
island residents, the base established there was active during the  
Cold War and closed down in the early 70s. Recently in Savoonga,  
residents of St. Lawrence Island met with the Army Corps. of  
Engineers to discuss the cleanup of environmental contaminants left  
by the site. KNOM’s Kristin Leffler and Jenn Ruckel attended and  
filed this report:

It was a clear and bright day on St. Lawrence Island when  
representatives of the Army Corps. of Engineers landed in Savoonga.  
Two meetings slated that day would address the process for cleaning  
up Northeast Cape, inactive since 1972, but harboring a slew of  
environmental contaminants, including the toxin PCB.

According to Kevin Maher with Jacobs Engineering, the meetings aimed  
to introduce how the CERCLA process was used at Northeast Cape.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.knom.org/wp/blog/2015/02/06/savoonga-residents-frustrated- 
with-cleanup-process-of-former-military-site-at-northeast-cape/

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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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