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Chernofski

  • “The primary purpose of the work is to continue to remove some petroleum-contaminated soil at a number of locations where we already removed the storage tanks," said Andy Sorum, the project manager at the Chernofski Harbor FUDS. This is the Corp’s third major cleanup in Chernofski Harbor in the last decade.
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    Army Corps moves forward to clean up WWII contamination in Chernofski Harbor
    Theo Greenly
    The Army Corps of Engineers is moving closer to dealing with a contaminated World War II-era military site long abandoned in the Aleutian Islands. At a meeting Wednesday night in Unalaska, representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers said they would send a contractor to Chernofski Harbor in May. They aim to remove around 800 tons of soil and debris that was contaminated by diesel oil tanks during World War II. The cleanup site covers more than 1,200 acres in Chernofski Harbor, on the southwestern edge of Unalaska Island. Chernofski village was inhabited for thousands of years, but people stopped living there in the early 20th century, and the navy operated a port there from 1942 to 1945.