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Site Report: Fort Abercrombie

Site Name: Fort Abercrombie
Address: Ft. Abercrombie State Pk., 4 Miles NE of Kodiak, Kodiak, AK 99615
File Number: 2601.38.087
Hazard ID: 3212
Status: Active
Staff: Curtis Dunkin, 9072693053 curtis.dunkin@alaska.gov
Latitude: 57.831472
Longitude: -152.354222
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Problems/Comments

Fort Abercrombie was established as a WWII coastal defense installation in June 1941 and contained 678 acres. The site was used as a coastal defense installation by the U.S. Army form 1941-1945 and included 25 Quonset huts, two 8-inch guns, three concrete bunkers and a searchlight. Current features include the war reserve magazine, three generator houses, searchlight bunker, distant electrical control pillboxes, a ready ammunition bunker, a spotting and plotting room, warehouses, the garrison area, a pump house at Gertrude Lake, and an observation platform. Possible sources of hazardous substances or petroleum contamination include areas where aboveground storage tanks, underground storage tanks, or drums were disposed of or kept on site. However no site records to document that such sources existed were available, and aerial photographs show no trace of tank excavations, drums, or other storage or disposal areas. CERCLIS ID AKFSN1002103, status no further action. FUDS F10AK0561.

Action Information

Action Date Action Description DEC Staff
10/22/2002 Site Added to Database No contaminants found - START PA. Debra Caillouet
5/31/2005 Update or Other Action The Corps of Engineers called to check on the status of DEC review on a draft Inventory Project Report (INPR) for the site. The Corps proposed a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) project on the property due to petroleum contamination at a former generator building. DEC sent an email message back to the Corps asking whether munitions and explosives of concern have been adequately assessed, since the site had gun emplacements and magazines. John Halverson
6/14/2005 Update or Other Action File number issued 2601.38.087. Aggie Blandford
6/27/2008 Exposure Tracking Model Ranking Initial ranking with ETM completed. Jeff Brownlee
1/3/2023 Update or Other Action On 01/03/2023 DEC emailed USACE an request for additional site characterization at Fort Abercrombie FUDS site to address the following data gaps listed below: • The site investigation was performed on February 5, 1999. There was snow on the ground and soil staining and/or stressed vegetation could not be observed. • Gun emplacements and magazines may be present at the site. No survey or sampling for explosives, and metals were conducted. • Groundwater was not sampled. • The total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) result of 410 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) may exceed the EPA residential soil reference screening levels (RSLs) if analyzed for petroleum fractions (only TPH analyses were available for review). Daniela Fawcett

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