Former POW-3 DEW Line Radar Site

 former air force base, early warning radar

Established in 1957 as a Auxiliary site in the POW Sector of the DEW Line, the POW-3 or Bullen Point/Flaxman Island radar station operated as a long-range radar site for ver forty years before its DEW Line mission ended in 1995. An expansive facility covering nearly all of its allotted 620 acres of land, the station was comprised a module train of 10 buildings attached to the geodesic radome, four 30-foot communications antennae, two pumphouses, a warehouse, seven diesel oil tanks, a 250,000-gallon water storage tank, two barge docks, roads, gravel pads, and a 3,500-foot airstrip.

Replaced with a co-located short-range radar station which went active with the North Warning System in 1994, the POW-3 site became a fully autonomous facility and shortly after the end of DEW operations the infrastructure was razed as part of "Operation Clean Sweep".

lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/pow3.htm
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/bullen/bpr_p1.html