A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 



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Fig. 5 The second laboratory facility was located on Enewetak Island from 1961 to 1969. [Photo by E. S. Reese.] 



long-term use of these facilities and allocated them to the 

 laboratory (Fig. 7). Over the next 2 years, in anticipation 

 of the demobilization of the cleanup force and the sharp 

 reduction in available logistics and life support facilities, 

 steps were taken to make the laboratory ready to "stand 

 alone." The complex was augmented with several portable 

 housing and laboratory units, and plans were made for 

 local power, fresh and salt water systems, and other 

 needed support. The new location was a considerable 

 improvement, consolidating all operational and support 

 activities in one location. The new facilities included a 

 main air-conditioned laboratory building with work benches 

 and equipment space, a library, communications room, 

 dark room, reference collection roorr and several storage 

 rooms. Attached to the main building were a generator 

 room and a storage shed. Four additional buildings pro- 

 vided sleeping quarters accommodating as many as 18 per- 

 sons. Other buildings provided a kitchen, food storage, a 

 chemistry laboratory, a scientific shop, a dive locker, a 

 general maintenance shop, and a covered seawater lanai. 



A 50-foot tower on which two 600-gal tanks were located 

 provided gravity feed for a seawater system. Good quality 

 unfiltered seawater for this system was pumped from a 

 former quarry in the reef. 



Access to the lagoon for boats and personnel was pro- 

 vided by a conveniently located concrete ramp and a 

 wooden pier. Laboratory boats were moored offshore or 

 launched and retrieved from trailers at the ramp. 



Fresh water was provided by catchment of rain from 

 the roofs of several buildings and stored in four 10,000-gal 

 cisterns. Diesel and gasoline fuels were stored in tanks on 

 the lagoon side of the laboratory complex. These fuels, 

 along with other supplies, were delivered to the laboratory 

 approximately every 2 months by the DOE research vessel 

 L\kianur, which was based at Kwajalein and supported 

 DOE's environmental research, radiation protection, and 

 medical programs in the northern Marshall Islands. Person- 

 nel, mail, and light cargo were usually transported via the 

 Airline of the Marshall Islands (AMI) on approximately a 

 biweekly schedule and occasionally on a chartered flight. 



