[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Army corps makes plans to clean contaminated soil at WWII sites in Unalaska Valley"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army corps makes plans to clean contaminated soil at WWII sites in Unalaska Valley

By Theo Greenly
KUCB (Aleutian Islands, AK)
June 8, 2022

Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they plan to remediate a half-dozen contaminated World War II sites in the Unalaska Valley this fall.

They have been making slow but steady progress to remediate formerly used defense sites — or FUDS — across the island for decades.

The sites being cleaned up in the coming months were underground facilities used for storing fuel tanks, which contaminated the soil with petroleum.

Rena Flint, who is managing the project, said the corps is in the process of coordinating rights of entry with landowners for six underground storage tank sites of former World War II buildings. The sites range from residences to vacant land owned by the city or the Ounalashka Corp.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.kucb.org/regional/2022-06-08/army-corps-makes-plans-to-clean-contaminated-soil-at-wwii-sites-in-unalaska-valley

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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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