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RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL
to Ujelang Atoll. Ten buildings and five concrete slabs wereleftin place a,
the request of the dri-Enewetak Planning Council.34 H&N-PTD completeq
the removal and disposed of the remaining building slabs and, in early
April 1980, accomplished the final cleanup of scrap:and debris from Lojwa.
A total of 1,302 cubic yards of debris was removed from theislandto
dump site Bravo, and 813 cubic yards of concrete rubble were placed ag
shore protection. DOE-ERSP soil survey of Lojwa indicated that surface
contamination wasless than that required for Condition C, qualifying the
island for residential use without soil cleanup.
RUNIT (YVONNE) WORK SITE CLEANUP
Removal of the temporary buildings at the Runit work site began in
early October 1979.35 Concurrently, the FRST and USAE were
monitoring and decontaminating equipment from the northernislands,
including Runit, for return to Enewetak Camp. Someitems, such as the
transit-mix trucks, could not be adequately cleaned and monitored. They
were badly deteriorated and beyond economical repair. They were
disposed of as yellow debris rather than risk release of contaminated items
for uncontrolled use. Although hot line facilities were removed in mid-
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November 1979, Runit continued to be treated as a controlled island.36
Final cleanup of the Runit worksite, originally scheduled for completion
in mid-October, was delayed by the need to construct additional containers
adjacent to the Cactus Crater containment structure for disposal of red
debris discovered on the island and reef after the dome had been capped.
The task was completed the last week of December1979.37
NOVEMBER 1979 JOINT SURVEY
The second joint equipment survey was conducted on 6-9 November
1979 following an inspection by Army depot technicians. The technicians
classified all of the remaining major items of Army equipment in
preparation for demobilization of the USAE. Only 41 of 224 major items
were determined to be economically returnable to the Army supply
system. The remaining items were either being phased out of the Army
system, beyond economical repair, or not worth the cost of retrograde. Of
these, 150 items were offered for redistribution during the November
1979 joint equipment survey along with several hundred other items of
minor equipment and supplies which were salvage or excess to the
requirements of the other cleanupproject participants.38