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Long Forgotten— Far From Gone USACE scrubs away at $1 billion of environmental liability
K. Eldridge | USACE Alaska District
By Isaac Stone Simonelli
W
ith an estimated billion dollars of remediation projects left to manage in Alaska alone, it’s a long road for the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Alaska District to clean up formerly used defense sites in the state. Nonetheless, the USACE– Alaska District has been steadily chipping away at the herculean effort since October 17, 1986, whittling the list of properties that need to be investigated for possible remediation from 137 to 60. “We're working on almost forty to forty-five of those actively,” says Ken Andraschko, the USACE–Alaska District’s Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) program manager.
84 | August 2021
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