[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, PESTICIDES, FORMER SITES: Army Corps halts cleanup near Birch Lake (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corps of Engineers Halts Cleanup after Workers Discover Buried DDT-tainted Junk 

By TIM ELLIS
KUAC Public Radio (AK)
June 22, 2018 

The Army Corps of Engineers last fall halted cleanup of fuel-tainted soil near Birch Lake, about 60 miles south of Fairbanks, when workers uncovered buried junk that included barrels with residues of a different contaminant – the banned pesticides DDT and chlordane

Cleanup project manager Beth Astley says contractor workers discovered the junk while excavating soil contaminated by leaky fuel-storage tanks in an area that’s now part of the Birch Lake State Recreation Site.

Birch Lake is located just off the Richardson Highway about 60 miles southeast of Fairbanks.

“We ran into some trash, some buried metal, some drums that were empty,” she said. “And when we got to some rusted-out cans of insecticide that were labeled as containing DDT, we stopped.”

Astley says Anchorage-based Bristol Environmental Remediation Services had to stop excavating the site because its contract called for removal of soil contaminated by fuel.

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For the entire article, see
http://fm.kuac.org/post/corps-engineers-halts-cleanup-after-workers-discover-buried-ddt-tainted-junk

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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