Ketchikan Pulp Company mill site

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Ketchikan Pulp Company was established in 1948 as part of a federal government initiative to bring permanent, year-round jobs to southeast Alaska. Because all timber in the region was owned by the federal government, a 50-year supply contract was awarded to KPC to attract the investment necessary to build a pulp mill. The company began operations in 1954 and had been Alaska's largest manufacturing company and the largest private employer in southeast Alaska.

The mill closed permanently in March 1997. The contaminated site was declared an EPA site, and cleanup operations to remove soils containing lead, PCBs, arsenic and petroleum compounds, as well as dredging of marine sediments containing ammonia, hydrogen sulphide and 4-methylphelols, was completed in 2001.


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