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DEC outlines contaminated sites near Chena River, highlights PFAS at Fairbanks Airport training area
Summary
Robert Burgess of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation walked the Chena Riverfront Commission through DEC’s contaminated‑sites web map, identified clustered groundwater plumes near Fort Wainwright and downtown Fairbanks, and described PFAS and remediation work at the Fairbanks Airport fire‑training area.
Robert Burgess, a representative of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s Contaminated Sites Program, told the Chena Riverfront Commission on April 23 that DEC maintains a public web map showing active and closed contaminated sites along the Chena River and its tributaries.
The map shows clustered groundwater plumes near Fort Wainwright, historic dry‑cleaning solvent plumes downtown, a sulfolane plume from the North Pole refinery and isolated PFAS detections around the Fairbanks Airport training area and Peggar Lake. Burgess said the map helps users identify active sites, mapped groundwater plumes and documents attached to each site.
“PFAS...it’s very difficult to break down PFAS. It’s just a hard…
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