[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FORMER SITES: Ft. Glenn, AK ordnance clearance

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army engineers remove World War II-era explosives from national historic landmark on a remote Alaskan island

By Ms. Rachel Napolitan & Mr. Tom Findtner
US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District 
August 31, 2022

Boom! Another explosion went off as a field crew for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District worked to safely clear and detonate munitions remaining from the World War II-era Fort Glenn, an abandoned military installation in the Aleutian Islands 850 miles from Anchorage.

Under the Department of Defense’s Formerly Used Defense Sites Program, the team removed more than 2,200 items classified as either discarded ammunition or unexploded ordnance, while recovering 56,000 pounds of metallic debris at the remote outpost during summer field seasons in 2020 and 2021.

The successful completion of these remediation activities reduced risk to human health, while helping to protect and preserve the environment.

“By conducting this work, it is a much safer place than it was three years ago, and it will allow the land to be used for other things down the road,” said Jeremy Craner, project manager.

Fort Glenn was built in secret under the guise of the Blair Fish Packing Company in late 1941 and is the most recent site in the state where USACE has executed an environmental restoration project with funding from the DoD Military Munitions Response Program. 


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For the entire release, see
https://www.poa.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/3146095/army-engineers-remove-world-war-ii-era-explosives-from-national-historic-landma/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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