Details Released About Adak Fuel Spill
Wednesday, September 07 2011
Last week, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation released their final report on a spill that took place in the Adak small boat harbor last year.
According to the document, nearly 70,000 gallons of #2 diesel fuel were released from an underground storage tank operated by Adak Petroleum in January of 2010. The spill was the result of over-filling. The spill area was monitored for roughly two months, and clean-up efforts finally concluded 11 months later with 5,000 gallons of diesel recovered. Marine waters were contaminated, but the report lists no specific impacts on wildlife.
Adak Petroleum is a subsidiary of Aleut Enterprise.