Bering Strait Community Brownfield Sites

Click on any site name below for detailed information. If you would like to report a potential brownfield site, please fill out Brownfield Report Form.

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(W) denotes sites identified through the Waste Erosion Assessment and Review (WEAR) project which was a grant-funded Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation project from 2012-2015 that documented areas of potential contamination along Alaska’s western coast.

(CS) denotes sites that are listed on the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Contaminated Sites Database.

Brevig Mission

• US Coast Guard Port Clarence Loran Station FUDS (CS)

• Active Landfill (W)

• Closed Landfill (W)

• Former Store Tank Farm (W)

• Former Fuel Station (W)

Council

• No ADEC Contaminated Sites identified (CS)

• Abandoned Generator Building (W)

Diomede

• No brownfields identified

Elim

• Elim School (CS)

• FAA Moses Point Sites (CS)

  • Fuel Storage Area

  • Moses Point Maintenance Facility

  • Septic/Sewage facility

  • VORTAC Burns 1 & 2

  • Moses Point Dump Area

• Moses Point Formerly Used Defense Site (CS)

• Elim Old AVEC Tank Farm (CS) (W)

• Old City Shop, Elim (CS) (W) DEC Link; Old City Shop, Elim Kawerak Update 8/24

Golovin

• Old Golovin Landfill/Dumpsite (CS)  (W) DEC Link; Old Golovin Landfill/Dumpsite Kawerak Update 8/24

• Former Fish Processing Plant (CS) (W) DEC Link; Golovin Former Fish Processing Plant Kawerak Update 8/24

• Golovin Former Washeteria  Kawerak Update 8/24

Gambell

• Gambell Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) (CS)

• AKARNG Gambell Federal Scout Armory (CS) (W)

• Gambell Village Tank Farm Pipeline (CS)

• IHS Gambell Clinic (CS) (W)

King Island

• No brownfields identified

Koyuk

• Granite Mountain AFS (CS)

• Koyuk Native Corporation Tank Farm (CS) (W) DEC Link; Koyuk Native Corporation Tank Farm Kawerak Update 8/24

• Bear Creek Mining Claim (CS)

• Koyuk Old AVEC Tank Farm (CS) (W)

• Old City Tank Farm, Koyuk (W) DEC Link; Old City Tank Farm, Koyuk Kawerak Update 8/24

• School Old Tank Farm (W)

Mary’s Igloo

• No brownfields identified

Savoonga

• NEC Facility Northeast Cape (CS)

• NEC Site 31 White Alice (CS)

• Savoonga Native Store Tank Farm (CS) (W)

• AKARNG Savoonga FSA (CS) (W)

• ADOT & PF SREB Savoonga Airport (Old) (CS) (W)

• ADOT & PF SREB Savoonga Airport (New) (CS)

• Northeast Cape NALEMP Fish Camp (CS)

• Savoonga Former Landfill Kawerak Update 8/24

Shishmaref

• Shishmaref Native Store (CS) Closed Landfill – Eroding (W)
• Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Site
• Shishmaref Former Tannery

Shaktoolik

• Current Tank Farm (W)

• Fish Processing Plant (W)

Solomon

• No brownfields identified

St. Michael

• Former Airstrip (CS) (W)

• AVEC Power Plant Tank Farm (CS) (W)

Stebbins

• AKARNG Stebbins FSA (CS) (W)

• Stebbins Landfill Drums (CS)

• Tapraq Tank Farm (CS)

• AVEC Power Plant Tank Farm (CS) (W)

Teller

• Teller Supply & Storage Site (CS)

• American River FUDS (CS)

• ADOT & PF Maintenance Station (CS)

• Abandoned Tanks (W)

• Baskeball Court Tank Site

• Contaminated Soil Site (W)

Wales

• Tin City Air Force Station LRRS (CS)

• Tin City White Alice Site (CS)

• US Naval Field Station (CS) (W)

• AKARNG Wales Federal Scout Armory (CS)

• Wales Aircraft Warning Station/DERP (CS)

• Abandoned Tanks (W)

White Mountain

• White Mountain Washeteria (CS)

• BIA School Drum Storage Area (CS) (W) DEC Link; BIA School Drum Storage Area Kawerak Update (8/42)

• White Mountain BIA Silver Tanks

Unalakleet

• Unalakleet Native Corporation Gas Spill (CS) (W)

• Air Warning Main Radar Site (CS) (W)

• Unalakleet NALEMP Kotongan Lake AST (CS) (W)

• ADOT & PF SREB (CS)

• FAA Sites (CS)

• North River RRS Area A SS003 (CS)

• North River RRS Area C SS001 & SO001 (CS)

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