Beloved Alaska disc golf course was built around bubbling crude oil from a sealed-off tank area

Beloved Alaska disc golf course was built around bubbling crude oil from a sealed-off tank area

In Juneau, Alaska, a popular public park is showing how contamination from long-closed industry can remain hidden for decades before reappearing in ordinary community spaces. Visitors to the historic Treadwell Mine complex on Douglas Island now pass trails and a nine-hole disc golf course alongside a sealed-off former tank area, where crude oil has started rising to the surface. What happened? A bright orange plastic fence now cordons off part o…