[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Adak [AK] cleanup contract canceled"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Adak cleanup contract canceled

Jim Paulin
Arctic Sounder (AK)
April 20, 2020


A lucrative cleanup contract for old, but still live, ammunition has been blasted to bits by Covid-19 in Adak, in a major blow to the local economy.

"We're just starting to feel the pain on that," said Adak City Manager Layton Lockett of the economic impacts of the March 17 notification from the Navy that the UXO contract was stopped for this year. 

UXO stands for unexploded ordinance, in other words explosives left behind by the military after the Navy pulled out of the former Cold War outpost in 1997. Lockett said last week that the contract with the engineering firm Aptim Federal Services, worth millions of dollars, was stopped by the Navy because of concerns associated with the ongoing pandemic caused by the deadly novel coronavirus. There have been no cases of the disease on the island, he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/2017adak_cleanup_contract_canceled

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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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