Federal and state scientists confirmed initial environmental investigations at both U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City and Cherry Capital Airport showed high levels of PFAS contamination.
Mike Vidakovich
As you read this column today, you may be convinced that I am just old and full of beans. The former is certainly true, and the latter most likely is representative of the truth also.
But I do believe that on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 31, around 4 p.m., a long-lost running buddy came back unexpectedly if only briefly to pay me a visit. I think he wanted to make a point, and to offer up a small dose of my own medicine for all of the good-natured ribbing I had dished out to him years ago.
He came to me in the form of a shadow.
Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Feb 26, 2021
Sulphurets Creek, which drains naturally occurring rusty water from the KSM mine prospect, enters Mitchell Creek upstream from Southeast Alaska in 2014. Tribal officials worry mining will send polluted water into British Columbia rivers that flow into Alaska. (File photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska)
A 22-page final report released on Thursday culminates two years of data collected from water, sediment and fish tissue in three transboundary watersheds that straddle the frontier. And now, Alaska and British Columbia governments say their work is done.
“Given the existence of other sampling programs planned by state, federal or provincial agencies throughout the transboundary region, there is no need to continue the joint program,” the state and province said in a joint-statement.
The case, originally filed in Pulaski County, had a change of venue to Boone County.
Michael Lee, the father of Jessica Lee, brought the case after his daughter s car was swept away in the early-morning hours of Aug. 6, 2013, from the flooded Southside Drive in Waynesville. Jessica Lee s 4-year-old son, Elyjah, also was in the vehicle.
The third amended petition filed by Michael Lee on Nov. 25, 2019, was for Jessica. Elyjah s body was found later Aug. 6, 2013, one-half mile from Southside Drive next to Mitchell Creek, while Jessica s was found Aug. 9, 2013, five miles from Southside Drive near Rubidoux Creek and Business Loop 66 in Waynesville.
Guarding the memory of 16 Mile Camp s role in WWII defence of Darwin
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To the untrained eye, 16 Mile Camp is a pretty bush path, but a closer look reveals a heritage-listed WWII site
(ABC Radio Darwin: Conor Byrne)
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Almost 80 years after the bombing of Darwin, the plan to defend the city and fall back for fear of a Japanese land invasion still teaches valuable lessons.
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Australian and American soldiers were stationed there for three months