Bering Strait Community Brownfield Public Record

The Brownfields Public Record contains documentation for response actions at all of the contaminated sites within the Kawerak region. Response actions are assessment and clean-up activities taken to prevent or minimize the release of hazardous substances so that they do not endanger human health or the environment. 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 9/23

Golovin

• Old Golovin Landfill/Dumpsite (CS)  (W) DEC Link; Old Golovin Landfill/Dumpsite Kawerak Update 9/23

• Former Fish Processing Plant (CS) (W) DEC Link; Golovin Former Fish Processing Plant Kawerak Update 12/22

• Golovin Former Washeteria  Kawerak Update 7/23

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 12/22

• 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 8/23

• 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 7/23

Shishmaref

• Shishmaref Native Store (CS)

• Closed Landfill – Eroding (W)

• Shishmaref Shoreline Tar Barrel Site

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 (9/23)

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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