USACE winds down Attu cleanup until next year

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is wrapping up its work on Attu for the season. This summer, the Corps made camp on the uninhabited, western-most island in the Aleutian chain.
Two excavators dig up contaminated soil and old, rusted diesel drums on June 20 at Attu Island.
(Photo courtesy of Dena O’Dell / USACE-Alaska District Public Affairs)Over six weeks, the Corps worked to clean up two World War II-era military sites that were leaking tar and petroleum, contaminating the soil an