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Borough says emergency response to Point Higgins Elementary diesel spill wound down; cleanup to continue
Summary
Assembly received an update that emergency response at Point Higgins Elementary School is complete and cleanup has moved to excavation and disposal; air sampling and removal of contaminated soil ongoing and some downstream private properties already had contaminated soil removed.
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly heard an update Sept. 15 that the immediate emergency response to a diesel fuel spill at Point Higgins Elementary School has ended and cleanup work is continuing under contractor oversight.
Emergency manager Steve Radeen told the assembly that the borough’s response phase is finished and the site has been turned over to Nortek (Nortech/Nortek Engineering) for remediation. “We had our final meeting, as far as the emergency response portion of this goes, and it's been turned over to Nortek for cleanup,” Radeen said.
Nortek project manager Jason Ginter described the current work as excavation of diesel-contaminated soils, loading that material into containers and shipping it off-site for disposal. “At this…
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