[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: "Army Corps says Unalaska [AK] cleanup work will continue despite statewide cutbacks"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army Corps says Unalaska cleanup work will continue despite statewide cutbacks

By Theo Greenly
KUCB (AK)
May 28, 2026 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said its cleanup work plan for former military sites is shrinking by about 40%, but officials say cleanup sites around Unalaska are still moving forward.

The Corps’ Formerly Used Defense Sites program cleans up contamination left behind from past military activity. In Unalaska and the Aleutians, that includes petroleum contamination, munitions and other hazardous materials from World War II-era sites.

Corps officials say the program has lost staff over the last year, including six project managers and nearly half its technical staff.


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For the entire story, see
https://www.kucb.org/2026-05-28/army-corps-says-unalaska-cleanup-work-will-continue-despite-statewide-cutbacks

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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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