[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Army Corps of Engineers begins cleanup of landing hub at Attu Island" (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps of Engineers begins cleanup of landing hub at Attu Island

By Dena O’Dell
army.mil
August 4, 2016

ATTU ISLAND, Alaska -- Against the backdrop of a crisp, blue sky and snow-scattered mountains, a bright orange excavator sharply claws at the earth near Massacre Bay. 

With each dip of its bucket, contaminated soil, tar and old, rusted diesel drums are unearthed from their decades-long resting place.

Once a bustling active military site, the remote Aleutian island buzzed again with activity from June to mid-July as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District, along with its contractor, Bristol Environmental Remediation Services, LLC, cleaned up contaminated remnants from Attu's storied military past.

More than 70 years ago, the area served as a landing hub for U.S. Army Soldiers fighting to recapture the island from the Japanese during World War II. It also operated as an Army base and Naval station during the war, and was later home to the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, the latter maintaining its presence there until 2010. 

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For the entire release, see
https://www.army.mil/article/172882/army_corps_of_engineers_begins_cleanup_of_landing_hub_at_attu_island

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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