A planned $4 million harbor expansion in Whittier has gotten a lot more expensive after dredging work brought up oily gravel. The Alaska Public Radio Network reports the oil has been sitting on the seafloor off Whittier since the 1964 earthquake, when tidal waves hit a tank farm and spilled the fuel. It had been thought the resulting fire burned off most of the fuel.
Dredging work had to be halted until regulators from DEC and the Army Corps of Engineers decided how the contaminated gravel would be dealt with. They ended up piling it up on Alaska Railroad property near the end of the Anton Anderson Tunnel that connects Whittier with the Seward Highway.
That's about 1,000 dump truck loads. [Gary Folley, manager of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Prevention and Emergency Response Program,] says the gravel is being drained before being added to the pile, and work has resumed with more precautions to protect the waters at the dredge site.Read more at APRN, and link to the audio report there.
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