Site Report: Agattu Island
| Site Name: | Agattu Island |
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| Address: | Agattu Island, Adak, AK 99546 |
| File Number: | 2503.38.001 |
| Hazard ID: | 2636 |
| Status: | Active |
| Staff: | Erica Blake, 9074512182 erica.blake@alaska.gov |
| Latitude: | 52.435306 |
| Longitude: | 173.575600 |
| Horizontal Datum: | NAD27 |
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Problems/Comments
Sampling conducted by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has detected hydrocarbon and heavy metal contamination in soil at debris piles or downgradient from these areas. Specific concerns are with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, lead and mercury. The site was developed as an Army Air Warning Station in 1943 to transmit warning data to Attu during WWII. It was then subsequently used by the Navy as a mobile navigation antenna site during 1962 and again in 1965. The site was added to the federal Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket on June 27, 1997. Debris scattered on 400 acres include equipment, thousands of drums, four aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), halved fuselage of a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber, antenna system, collapsed 130-foot antenna, generator sheds, water tanks, huts, and lead/acid batteries. Wreckage of Japanese destroyer "Nenohi", sunk 7/4/1942, lies off the coast. Both Army and Navy used Agattu Island. (EPA CERCLIS ID#: AK0001413673).
Action Information
| Action Date | Action | Description | DEC Staff |
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| 9/21/1992 | Preliminary Assessment Approved | PA action added by Shannon and Wilson, Inc., on 2/19/97. Based on FUDS Site Summary dated 02/21/96, PA was completed 9/21/92. | S&W-Miner |
| 11/19/1996 | Site Added to Database | Site added by Shannon and Wilson. Hydrocarbon and heavy metal contamination. | S&W-Miner |
| 1/25/2001 | Site Ranked Using the AHRM | Initial ranking based on DB entries and DBA's knowledge of site area. | Former Staff |
| 3/16/2001 | Site Ranked Using the AHRM | Site re-ranked, changed Population Density Value, Groundwater Usage and Exposure Values (no one lives on the island). | John Halverson |
| 3/30/2001 | Update or Other Action | ADEC received a copy of a letter from EPA to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife. It states that the site is a low priority for EPA under the superfund program and that ADEC should contine to serve as the lead regulator for oversight on the necessary investigation and cleanup. | John Halverson |
| 12/1/2016 | Meeting or Teleconference Held | CS managers participate in the annual FUDS site management action plan meeting. The purpose of the is to collaborate with FUDS management on site progress and prioritization for all of the formerly used defense sites. FUDS prioritization is based on risk, congressional interest, state input and proximity to other sites on the prioritization list. FUDS has increased environmental restoration funding in Alaska for the 2017 and 2018 field seasons to meet National goals for site progress. | Darren Mulkey |
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