Community group envisions transformation of contaminated lands

Joy Britt wants Unalaskans to envision contaminated sites transformed. (Photo by Greta Mart/KUCB)
Out of over 7,400 contaminated sites around Alaska, a hundred are in Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. That’s among the highest concentration of contaminated sites in the state, besides Adak.
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) runs the state’s contaminated sites program. The program is aimed at managing the cleanup of places where the soil and groundwater are polluted, an