Stability of Stream Communities Exposed to Underground Nuclear Tests on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

• Main Author: Valdez, Richard Ames
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Utah State University 1975
• Subjects: Varden; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Alice Creek; White Alice Creek; Pink salmon; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26076/e16d-b117; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1625

A major bioenvironmental effect of The United States Atomic Energy Commission's Underground Nuclear Testing Program on Amchitka Island, Alaska was the decimation of stream communities by drilling muds from the device emplacement holes. These muds reached two of these streams 4 months and 2 year...