[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Army Corps of Engineers to complete Unalaska Valley [AK] cleanup"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Unalaska, informally known as Dutch Harbor, was actually bombed by the Japanese during World War II. - LS]

Army Corps of Engineers to complete Unalaska Valley cleanup

By Theo Greenly
KUCB (Aleutians, AK)
July 17, 2023

The Army Corps of Engineers is cleaning up diesel-contaminated soil in Unalaska, nearing completion of the last remaining locations of their decades-long cleanup efforts in the Unalaska Valley.

They contracted with the recently-formed OC Environmental Services, an environmental firm owned and operated by Unalaska’s Native corporation, to conduct the field cleanup, and say the cleanup should be finished within the next few weeks.

When the U.S. military was in Unalaska during WWII, it used diesel for heating buildings. When troops left after the war, they buried the storage tanks underground, and the fuel leached into the soil.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.kucb.org/science-environment/2023-07-17/army-corps-of-engineers-to-complete-unalaska-valley-cleanup

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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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