ESTCP Project #1011, Rhizosphere
Final Report
2. To appropriately address the DoD requirement and the objectives of ESTCP, each site
was required to have a Native American association and to have been contaminated by
DoD activities.
3. The SERDP- and Army EQT-funded research leading to this demonstration had been
conducted in well-drained (not saturated) soils. Accordingly, the sites chosen are not
wetlands and the demonstrations were on well-drained areas.
4. Each site needed to have an agreeable owner or Primary Responsible Party.
5. Sites needed to have a realistic chance of success achievable within our budget. This
eliminated some of the more distant formerly used defense (FUD) sites, such as the NE
Cape site on St. Lawrence Island and Manning Point on the North Slope, which are
typical of the proposed application for this technology because they are too remote for
regular travel. Their remote locations made them too expensive for us to successfully
conduct periodic monitoring required for a field demonstration.
6. We received these funds in May 1997 and were required to obligate them in FY97. To
accomplish this, we selected sites where our site partners had a contracting mechanism
already in place. This allowed us to modify existing contracts rather than negotiate a new
contract for each site. Establishing new contracts was not feasible within the FY97
obligation requirement.
7. Additional criteria for site selection were the requirements, interest, investment in time,
and likelihood of teamwork with potential partners. At each of the sites we chose, our
partners demonstrated a willingness to cooperate, an eagerness to assist, and an
appreciation of the potential savings to be realized pending acceptance and successful
technology transfer. Consequently, we have a technology-transfer mechanism in place
through our current partners.
3.3 Test Site Description
The three sites were all former DoD sites and the contaminants were mainly the result of fuel
storage and use on the facilities; a dry-cleaning facility also contributed to contamination at
Barrow.
3.3.1 Annette Island. The Annette Island site, on the Metlakatla peninsula of the island,
is in the southern panhandle of Alaska below Juneau and Ketchikan (Figures 4 through 8). The
U.S. Army Air Force Annette Island Landing Field was established in 1940 under a use permit
granted by the Department of the Interior. The War Department, along with the Army Corps of
Engineers, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA, the predecessor to the Federal Aviation
Administration), and the National Weather Bureau, constructed and operated the airfield and
supporting facilities. During construction, approximately 35 fuel tanks with a combined capacity
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