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Alaska peninsula, bering sea side

Port Heiden Dump Site; Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea Side · NOAAORR-7715

issued
2007-11-21 00:00Z
status
cancelled 2007-12-05 00:00Z
self-cancels
2007-12-05 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
Bering Sea
position
56.916, -158.684
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

Port Heiden Dump Site; Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea side.
Alaska Peninsula, Bering Sea side.
1. Coastal erosion at Port Heiden, on the Alaska Peninsula, has encroached on an old military dump site causing some sheening in the adjacent Bering Sea. The sheening was first observed on October 11, 2007, and is currently only sheening minimally. Nevertheless, Sector Anchorage has established an IC here in Anchorage to deal with the pollution. Current plans are to get the PST, along with state and contract folks, to conduct an evaluation and appraisal of the situation probably beginning around the first of next week. The sheening site is adjacent to a FUDS site in which the Army Corp of Engineers removed 2000 old drums containing only 100+ gallons of mixed petroleum fluids. In addition to old military drums, the dump site has been used by locals for years and contains derelict fishing gear, batteries, old vehicles, some medical waste and on and on. As a result, this response is being [...]
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: OIL, BATTERIES, MEDICAL WASTES, ETC.  .
3. POSITION 56.916N 158.684W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 7715: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/7715

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