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Cleaning Up Shemya

The environmental cleanup of Shemya Island continues. The 611th Civil Engineer Environmental Restoration Office continues to manage cleanup efforts with oversight provided by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC). For specific Shemya issues, please go to the following ADEC link for status of specific sites cleanup:

http://www.state.ak.us/dec/spar/csp/sites/eareckson.htm
 

If there are any questions, you may contact the 611th community relations office at 1-800-222-4137.


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1. This is a small (28kB) black and white image of Shemya island as it existed in the late 1930's or early 1940's. Suitable for downloading with 56k Modems.

 

Shemya Island, Aleutians, AK

 

2. This is a large black and white image (178kB) of subject photo #1, and will take a few minutes to download using a 56k Modem...but worth the wait.

 

 

3. This is a small (28kB) colorized version of the Shemya Island photos. Nadine Smith of HLS Systems prepared this rendition for the Aleutians Web Site. Our thanks to Nadine for a wonderful job of bringing Shemya back to life as it might have been in its pre-WWII days.

 

4. This is a large colorized version (272kB) of the Shemya Island photos as seen above. If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0, the size of this image may shrink to fit within the boarders of your browser window (you may click on its "enlargement" button to see image full size). Earlier versions, and/or other browsers, may require you to scroll around to see areas of interest.

 

Last Updated: 13 Jun 2007 14:36