[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Army Corps moves forward to clean up WWII contamination in Chernofski Harbor"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps moves forward to clean up WWII contamination in Chernofski Harbor

By Theo Greenly
KUCB (Aleutians, AK)
January 20, 2022

The Army Corps of Engineers is moving closer to dealing with a contaminated World War II-era military site long abandoned in the Aleutian Islands.

At a meeting Wednesday night in Unalaska, representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers said they would send a contractor to Chernofski Harbor in May. They aim to remove around 800 tons of soil and debris that was contaminated by diesel oil tanks during World War II.

The cleanup site covers more than 1,200 acres in Chernofski Harbor, on the southwestern edge of Unalaska Island. Chernofski village was inhabited for thousands of years, but people stopped living there in the early 20th century, and the navy operated a port there from 1942 to 1945.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.kucb.org/regional/2022-01-20/army-corps-moves-forward-to-clean-up-wwii-contamination-in-chernofski-harbor

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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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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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