[CPEO-MEF] FUERL, FORMER SITES: "US Army visits Haines [AK] with updates on Tank Farm contamination site"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

US Army visits Haines with updates on Tank Farm contamination site

by Jenn Shelton 
KHNS FM News (Haines, AK)
April 4, 2024 

Representatives from the U.S. Army are visiting Haines this week to meet with local specialists regarding a contaminated site cleanup located near the ferry terminal.  A public meeting on Thursday evening (4/4) will discuss the latest findings and next steps in the ongoing, decades long, clean up effort.

Henry Leasia is a Public Involvement Specialist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation.  Leasia lives in Haines.  He explains the history of the contaminated site.

“What’s locally known as the tank farm in Haines was a fuel terminal that was operated by the military…the U.S. Army,” Leasia said.  “It operated from 1955 to the early seventies.  And it helped pump fuel from a pipeline that went from here all the way to airforce bases around Fairbanks.”

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For the entire story, see
https://khns.org/us-army-visits-haines-with-updates-on-tankfarm-contamination-site

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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