The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is resuming cleanup of soil contaminated by a fuel spill more than 50 years ago at 15.5 Mile Haines Highway.
The soil removal project began last spring but was put on hold in mid-June when surface water and groundwater levels rose enough to create an “unfavorable condition for continued excavation and backfill activities in low-lying and wetland environments,” according to an Army Corps report.
Ahtna, contracted by the Army…
