Contaminated Site Has Nikiski Residents Worried About Groundwater Pollution

A contaminated site in Nikiski has residents worried for the safety of their groundwater. The Arness Septage site was a dumping ground in the 1980s for more than 4,000 gallons of oil contaminated waste, sludge and other pollutants. In the decades sin

ce, Department of Environmental Conservation staff say the site has not been properly monitored.

Peninsula Clarion reporter Brian Smith just published a six-part series on the site. He says in the late 1980s the area was cleaned up. But he told APRN’s Lori Townsend there are still big questions about how area ground water was affected.

• Peninsula Clarion – Coming Clean: What Remains Out of Sight

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