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Students on Moose Kerr School's graduation committee catered Parks Canada's celebration in Aklavik Jan. 25. Helping prepare the community feast are, from left, Prairie Dawn Edwards, Brittany Edwards and Millie Greenland. - Katie May/NNSL photo
A clean celebration

Katie May
Northern News Services
Published Thursday, January 27, 2011

AKLAVIK - The community of Aklavik held a feast and drum dance Jan. 25 to celebrate the cleanup of contaminants from Inuvialuit and federal lands on a former Distant Early Warning (DEW) line site at Stokes Point in Ivvavik National Park, Yukon, about 150 kms from the hamlet.

The $7 million-dollar cleanup project – the most expensive in Parks Canada's 100-year history – cleared out contaminants such as lead, arsenic, DDT, PCBs and spilled diesel fuel left over from the 1950s DEW line operation.

The contaminated material was taken to designated disposal sites in British Columbia and Alberta, while non-contaminated supplies, such as old steel, were dumped at the Tuktoyaktuk landfill.

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