The Alaska Department of Transportation broke seven state laws this summer in connection with its Haines Highway reconstruction project after its contractor SECON excavated contaminated soil associated with the Haines-Fairbanks pipeline fuel spill, and stored it next to the Chilkat River.
SECON dug a 1,200-feet long, 15-feet wide, 4-feet deep trench “directly across from the area of the Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline site which was actively being excavated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,” according…