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Soils at the currently operating FAA station, which includes numerous related facilities, are reportedly contaminated with gasoline, diesel, solvents, PCBs, pesticides, and metals. Groundwater contamination has not been documented. Contamination was reported to the department in a report prepared by Ecology and Environment (E&E) "Environmental Compliance Investigation Report, Bethel FAA Station, Bethel, Alaska," dated May 1992 and received by the department December 4, 1992. E and E defines an FAA station as a series of facilities and sites initially established by FAA for use in support of air navigation. Therefore, the site number for the Bethel station includes diverse facilities and numerous contaminated sites. The station is located in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. While the estimated depth to groundwater at the Bethel FAA station varies between 11 and 50 feet, this groundwater is not used for drinking water. Drinking water wells at the station and in the Bethel area are over 400 feet deep and draw from an aquifer below the approximately 300 foot thick permafrost layer. The Bethel FAA facility has not been listed on the EPA's Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket, but is considered by FAA to be eligible for future listing. Last staff assigned was Dronenburg.

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