[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, PFAS: Haines Tank Farm (AK)

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army outlines PFAS contamination at Tanani Point

by Will Steinfeld 
Chilkat Valley News (AK)
July 10, 2025

Clean-up of so-called forever chemicals at Tanani Point remains unfunded and unscheduled, said U.S. Army representatives during a Monday evening meeting with Haines residents. 

The Army-owned land at Tanani Point on Lutak Road today is almost completely empty, save for one nondescript building. That building is the last remaining trace of the old Haines Tank Farm; at least, the last trace obvious to the naked eye.

Soil and groundwater at the site, which served as the southern end of the Haines-to-Fairbanks fuel pipeline throughout the last century, holds the chemical footprint of the old facility: contamination from leaking tanks, spilled fuel, and burned chemicals. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/07/10/army-outlines-pfas-contamination-at-tanani-point/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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