2020 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:43:45 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] FUEL, FORMER SITES: Army Corps plans cleanup of the Chilkat River, AK
 
Fifty years after the fuel spill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to clean up contamination on the Chilkat River

by Claire Stremple
KHNS FM (Haines, AK)
March 4, 2020 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking input on its plan to clean up a half century old fuel spill that’s polluting soil and water on the Chilkat River near Haines.

The U.S. Army built an 8-inch diameter steel pipeline to carry fuel over 600 miles from Haines to Fairbanks in the 1950s. It operated for over a decade and over that time there were numerous spills. One of them was a rupture at a pump station near Haines in the late 1960s.

“Approximately 33,600 gallons of fuel were released, ” said Will Mangano, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers technical lead of the project. That 33,000 gallons is about 800 barrels of fuel.

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For the entire story, see
https://khns.org/fifty-years-after-the-fuel-spill-u-s-army-corps-of-engineers-plans-to-clean-up-contamination-on-the-chilkat-river

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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