Current Status, Feb. 2001

contributed by Richard Konizeski

Current Status of Okanogan Gap Filler Annex P60D
based on information taken from 1990 Army Corps of Engineers FUDS F10WA038900

Feb 20, 2001

Location: On top of Starvation Mtn (elevation 6,769 ft) app. 20 miles northwest of Omak, Okanogan County, WA.

Findings of Fact report that the site consisted of 107 acres acquired in 1958 by memorandum of understanding from the Dept of Agriculture.

A radar station was constructed and completed in 1959, consisting of road access, control building, radar tower, installation of a 39,000-gallon fuel storage tank, plus all associated equipment and improvements needed to operate the radar station. The unmanned annex supported the primary installation at Othello Air Force Station. It was deactivated by the Air Force on March 1968 and declared excess.

The control building, fuel storage tank, sanitary latrine, road, sidewalk, and storm drainage were left in place and transferred to the custody of the Forest Service. The report states a 1988 site inspection revealed that the main structures, cyclone security fence, and underground fuel storage tank had been removed. The concrete tower foundations and the concrete slab for the former control building, which is apparently used as a helicopter-landing pad, are the only remaining visible evidence of the annex.