[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, MUNITIONS: "Full cleanup of Burma Road, other former military sites on Kodiak Island [AL], is still years away "

[Lenny Siegel]

Full cleanup of Burma Road, other former military sites on Kodiak Island, is still years away

By Davis Hovey  
KMXT FM (Kodiak, AK)
February 28, 2024 

Kodiak Island, like many places in Alaska, has dozens of historic military installations in need of cleanup, known as Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS). There are 533 total in Alaska, 138 of them are in need of cleanup. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in charge of the remediation of multiple sites across the archipelago. But as KMXT’s Davis Hovey reports, the process is slow going, lasting decades in some cases.

One Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) on Kodiak Island is the Burma Road, which was part of the old Kodiak Naval Station in 1939. It was used for ammunition storage, demolition of explosives and other military activities.

Burma Road, a 2.25-mile stretch containing five separate Munitions Response Sites or MRS, is now a popular Kodiak recreational area, and in the investigation phase of cleanup, which involves at least five years’ worth of work. That’s because previous surveys of the site discovered multiple burn areas, over a hundred acres used for magazine storage and a small arms pit.


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For the entire story, see
https://kmxt.org/2024/02/full-cleanup-of-burma-road-and-other-kodiak-islands-former-military-sites-is-still-years-away/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at 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)