Trident Seafoods notified Alaska fishermen that things aren’t looking good for the rest of the salmon season in Alaska in terms of prices.
In a letter sent to Alaska fishermen who sell to Trident, the management explained that the company wills stop buying most Alaska salmon at the end of August, with the exception of coho salmon in the Petersburg and Cordova South fishery.
Also, the price for chum salmon is dropping from 60 cents to 20 cents a pound because the “chum market has collapsed.”
“The current state of the salmon markets is volatile, and future indicators are even more concerning. We know this is not an easy time and we understand and empathize with our fishing community. Given how quickly things are changing we are committed to being as transparent as possible so you can make timely and informed decisions,” Trident’s executives wrote to the fleet.
This comes on the heels of Bristol Bay sockeye prices caving to 50 cents a pound, prompting protests by the commercial fleet in the bay.
The reality for Bristol Bay fishers is that there’s not enough room in freezers in a world that is overstocked with last year’s salmon. The increasing number of farmed salmon operations around the world and compounding the problem for Alaskans, who only provide wild fish to the market.
Trident also pointed out that Russia is selling pink salmon at extremely low prices and using the profits to fund the war on Ukraine.
“Last week, Russia harvested pink volume equivalent to our entire Alaska pink annual forecast, and they have shown a willingness to offload inventory at very low prices in part to fund the war in Ukraine. We haven’t seen a collapse in value like this since the 1990s, when pinks went well under ten cents a pound,” Trident wrote. The company forecasts it will be dropping the price for pink salmon.
That all adds up for a lean times for those with commercial permits in Alaska, one quarter of which are held by nonAlaskans.
Trident is also not going to buy fish in the Puget Sound or the fall salmon fishery.
Founded in 1973 by Alaska fisherman Chuck Bundrant, Trident became the largest seafood company in America.
Under a new “equity” ordinance passed by the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday, there will be no more fines for jaywalking in Anchorage starting in October.
That’s because the laws against jaywalking were racist, according to the rationale underpinning the new ordinance, and thus minorities are more likely to be cited for jaywalking.
Walkers who perceive no traffic coming should be able to cross a street in Anchorage, the ordinance sponsors said on Tuesday night. People can decide for themselves what is a safe time to cross. Police will have a more difficult time sorting out who is at fault in the expected increases of pedestrian fatalities, sources in law enforcement said.
Also, rules for bicyclists will change. Now, stop signs will be considered yield signs for cyclists and stop lights are like stop signs for them. They can proceed when it’s safe, as they determine what safe is.
No more will bicycles need to have lights, and people riding them on the roads won’t have to wear helmets, unless they are age 15 or under. There will be no more requirement for brakes or bells to alert walkers that the bicycle is approaching from behind.
The loosening of the rules of the road marks a moment of libertarianism by the largely liberal Assembly, which also has instituted things like plastic bag bans and which is leaning toward eliminating scofflaw laws against repeat traffic offenders, a law now on the books but under consideration for removal.
The new jaywalking and biking rules are based in a belief that the laws, as written, lead to racist outcomes because the laws are enforced against minorities. One of the studies used to support the changein the ordinance says that the disparities are because whites obeying helmet laws more than minorities.
In the journal Injury Epidemiology, the authors concluded, “Helmet use increased across racial/ethnic subpopulations, but greater increases among white students increased disparities. Policymakers should couple laws with other approaches to reduce helmet disparities and cycling injuries.”
It’s also unclear if the new city ordinances are overridden by state bike regulations, which specify equipment like brakes, reflectors, and headlamps when bikes are ridden on roads after dark.
For cyclists in Anchorage, they may ride on a city street one moment and be on a state road in another moment, technically rolling along under a different set of laws.
But in practical terms, Anchorage Police and Alaska State Troopers are not citing people for bicycle infractions unless they are being dangerous and egregious, and so the new city laws are more symbolic than necessary.
Certain dates are forever etched in Alaska history: March 30, 1867, when we were purchased from Russia. Jan. 3, 1959, when we became our nation’s 49th state. March 13, 1968, when oil was discovered on the North Slope at Prudhoe Bay.
One day, July 26, 2023 may be remembered this way as well: when the State of Alaska sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for issuing a pre-emptive veto of the permitting process for the Pebble Project. Arguing that EPA ‘effectively confiscated State property and created a de facto national park by invoking the veto, the motion requested to have the case heard directly by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In announcing the lawsuit, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, stated “bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. are exercising unbridled and unlawful power the choke off any further discussion on this important decision.”
Here’s why the case matters: Pebble is the world’s second-largest untapped copper deposit, with world-class gold, molybdenum, rhenium, and silver opportunities as well. It has long been vilified by environmentalists and even some public officials, who have waged a multi-faceted war by declaring that the mine would devastate the salmon harvests in Bristol Bay, which is located over 200 river miles away. Polling done in the early 2010s found that a slim majority of statewide residents opposed the original mine plan.
With that in mind, Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM), the company spearheading Pebble’s development, adapted its mine plan to remove the most contentious parts. The revised development process no longer used cyanide in the processing of the minerals, nor was a massive earthen dam going to be used to permanently store tailings, which opponents claimed could fail and send millions of gallons of poison and toxics into the watershed. NDM shrunk the proposed footprint to a fraction of the original and worked through the NEPA process beginning in 2017, with a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) issued in July 2020 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, finding – without ambiguity – the mine would have no significant impact to the Bristol Bay fishery.
With that clean FEIS and no threat to the fishery in place, you’d think climate activists obsessed with decarbonizing the planet and solving the so-called ‘climate crisis’ would celebrate Pebble for its domestic supplies of copper. After all, technologies critical to the green transition, such as EVs and wind turbines, require much more copper than conventional fossil fuel-based counterparts.
You’d be completely wrong. The eco-Left doubled down on their fight against Pebble, even though studies show the worldwide demand for copper will more than double between now and 2050.
To be fair, the misguided voices on Pebble were not limited to the left. After the FEIS was published, even right-leaning journalist Tucker Carlson, and politicians including Alaska’s U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, along with Donald Trump, Jr. joined the zealots demanding the Pebble resource base be locked up via administrative and political action, rather than letting the process continue to move forward. Free market be damned; Alaska needed to be saved from itself.
If past is prologue, the State should have a strong case before SCOTUS. In each of three recent decisions (Sturgeon vs Frost (2016/2019), West Virginia vs Environmental Protection Agency (2022) and Sackett vs Environmental Protection Agency (2023), the Court made it clear that executive-branch overreach was occurring, and that it needed to be stopped. The decisions struck back at the weaponization of agency agendas by bureaucrats who create regulation, rather than follow laws passed by Congress.
If a domestic supply of copper – one that will create 2.000 construction jobs and 600 full-time jobs – in a geographic area with a staggering 50% unemployment – and hundreds of millions of dollars of local, state and federal revenues can be built safely according to a proven science-based process, why fight it?
Maybe because the ability to create a domestic supply chain for ‘green’ technology-necessary copper isn’t the goal of the extremists. By fighting Pebble – and every other development project in the state – the real battle plan has been shown to be a complete lock-down of Alaska’s lands, waters and resources, in hopes of driving away industry and turning the state into one gigantic park.
Pebble’s science is clear, that it can be built without impacting fish. Kudos to Governor Dunleavy and his administration for taking the fight to the federal government and standing tall for all Alaskans. Here’s hoping the Supreme Court hears the case quickly, finds for the State – and against federal overreach – once again, and allows science to trump a narrative of fear.
Rick Whitbeck is the Alaska State Director for Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. Email him at [email protected], and follow him on Twitter @PTFAlaska
U.S. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., released financial documents he says backs up allegations that the Biden family and associates received more than $20 million in payments from foreign entities.
Comer released the bank records Wednesday, the latest installment in a string of troubling evidence for President Joe Biden. Notably, the records raise the alleged income to the Biden family and associates to over $20 million and highlight alleged involvement from Russia and Kazakhstan.
The committee released bank records appearing to show payments in the millions of dollars from “oligarchs” in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.
“Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in payments from Yelena Baturina, Burisma, and Kenes Rakishev. Vice President Biden had dinner with them in the spring of 2014 and 2015 in Washington, D.C.,” the committee said.
Comer’s 19-page Wednesday memo lays out in detail the alleged financial dealings, saying the Biden family and associates used at least 20 shell companies to funnel money undetected.
“In February 2014, a Russian Oligarch Sent $3.5 Million to a Shell Company Associated with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer: Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina transferred $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a shell company,” Comer’s office said. “Approximately $1 million was transferred to Devon Archer, and the remainder was used to initially fund a new company account, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which Devon Archer and Hunter Biden used to receive other foreign wires.”
Notably, one payment may have been the exact amount needed for a sports car for Hunter Biden.
From Comer’s office:
In April 2014, a Kazakhstani Oligarch Wired the Exact Price of Biden’s Sportscar to a Bank Account Used by Archer and Biden: In February 2014, Hunter Biden met with Kenes Rakishev at a Washington, D.C. hotel. Rakishev worked closely with the prime minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov. In April, Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch, wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai. The next day, a payment was made from Rosemont Seneca Bohai for a sportscar for Hunter Biden in the amount of $142,300. Archer and Biden then arranged for Burisma executives to visit Kazakhstan in June 2014 to evaluate a three-way deal among Burisma, a Chinese state-owned company, and the government of Kazakhstan.
Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in payments from Yelena Baturina, Burisma, and Kenes Rakishev. Vice President Biden had dinner with them in the spring of 2014 and 2015 in Washington, D.C.
Comer pointed to testimony from Devon Archer, a longtime friend and business associate of Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Archer testified that Hunter used his father’s name and phone calls from his father to advance his business dealings overseas.
“During Joe Biden’s vice presidency, Hunter Biden sold him as ‘the brand’ to reap millions from oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine,” Comer said. “It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself. And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered.”
These documents come after IRS whistleblowers who helped investigate Hunter Biden for alleged tax crimes documented about $17 million in payments from foreign entities. They also testified that the Department of Justice interfered with the investigation on Hunter’s behalf, prompting them to blow the whistle.
“This is made clear by meals at Café Milano where then-Vice President Joe Biden dined with oligarchs from around the world who had sent money to his son,” Comer said. “It’s clear Joe Biden knew about his son’s business dealings and allowed himself to be ‘the brand’ sold to enrich the Biden family while he was Vice President of the United States.”
President Biden has repeatedly dismissed claims that he benefited from overseas dealings with his son.
Meanwhile, three leading House Republican Committee chairs have teamed up to investigate the Department of Justice’s plea deal with Hunter Biden, which is now under more scrutiny given allegations of DOJ wrongdoing, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said in a letter to the DOJ on the matter.
“The Department’s unusual plea and pretrial diversion agreements with Mr. Biden raise serious concerns – especially when combined with recent whistleblower allegations – that the Department has provided preferential treatment toward Mr. Biden in the course of its investigation and proposed resolution of his alleged criminal conduct,” the letter said.
All is not well in the inner world of President Joe Biden. For a full third of July, the president took a break, leisurely spending days puttering at his $2.74 million beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware.
During this period, he didn’t engage in official travel, such as factory inaugurations, fair visits, military inspections, or supply chain briefings. He wasn’t even out in public licking ice cream cones. Instead, he was parked under an umbrella on the beach, his wife by his side to prevent any wandering off or child sniffing. The regime news media pretty much left him alone.
As August arrived, President Biden had already used up 40% of his time in office on vacation, albeit working vacations, with a few phone meetings, according to his official calendar.
Yes, the president has been phoning it in for much of his first term.
Biden has now returned to his presidential duties, but his workdays are brief, and his interactions with the media are short-lived. His time before cameras is kept short.
This week, Biden embarked on a tour of the Southwest, with the first stop in Arizona, a battleground state. There, he used his executive power to designate nearly one million acres as national monument land, saying he was addressing historical injustices towards Native Americans.
This move resulted in the cessation of any new uranium mining in the area, which unfortunately leaves the nation reliant on foreign sources, specifically Russia and satellite countries like Kazakhstan, for a crucial national security mineral.
Biden’s speech in Arizona was brief and predictable, touching on his criticisms of Republicans and their MAGA ways, as well as his consistent harping on climate change. However, even this routine speech had its flaws, as the mention of the Grand Canyon as one of the “Nine Wonders of the World” stirred controversy and led to the need for damage control efforts by his press office.
At his next speech highlighting the successes of Bidenomics in New Mexico, he seemed to suddenly start whispering and babbling incoherently, something that occurs with greater frequency as he tires.
Although carefully scripted, Biden’s Southwest swing could not hide the physical fragility and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world. His shuffling gait and unclear sentences are now widely recognized indications of his deteriorating dementia.
Throughout his tour, there was a noticeable absence of challenging questions from regime-approved reporters. Sensitive topics like a bag of cocaine found in the West Wing, legal issues faced by his son, or allegations of political interference with the Department of Justice’s attacks on his greatest political rival, Donald Trump, remain unaddressed.
This is likely the best condition we can expect to see Biden in, as he approaches his 81st birthday on Nov. 20, a mere 100 days away. It’s unrealistic to anticipate that his coherence will improve over the next four years.
Aging impacts individuals differently, and I don’t mean to imply that elderly individuals cannot think or communicate effectively. However, there are undeniable signs that Biden’s abilities are, in fact, diminishing rapidly.
In response to his deterioration, there appears to be a gradual introduction of the Kamala Harris backup plan. She’s now in the batting cage, as she will need to assume a more prominent role by the midterm elections.
Yet, the Democratic Party recognizes that Harris presents a challenge for American voters. Americans don’t really like the unserious vice president.
Since the onset of Biden’s presidency, efforts have been made to manage the narrative around Harris, downplaying her propensity for gaffes, which are similar to Vice President Dan Quayle’s own verbal goofs during George H.W. Bush’s administration. While Quayle’s gaffes were relatively concise (“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child,”) at least he kept his sentences short.
There’s a Quayle-level solecism, and then there’s Vice President Harris describing the very nature of time itself:
“The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.”
With the mumbler-in-chief and his giggling gaffe-machine at the top of the ticket, the Democratic Party is not presenting the best of what their party could offer America in terms of leadership during the difficult days ahead, and this will impact all their candidates down the ballot.
For Democrats to win in 2024, Vice President Harris is going to have to be much more tightly controlled and President Biden will have to be sent back to the basement, where he spent most of 2020. Even then, this ticket looks less viable with each passing day.
The Federal Reserve ’s launch of FedNow, a system to centralize financial transactions, is a significant threat to individual liberty and a major leap toward a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. While the Fed denies FedNow will precede a CBDC, the public has no reason to believe them.
FedNow allows people to “send instant payments through their depository institution accounts,” giving a direct line from the central bank to individual people. This means the federal government could potentially track every transaction and even prevent transactions with which it disagrees. The Fed promises this program will increase “expedience and availability.” Yet sacrificing our financial autonomy for expediency is nowhere near an equal trade.
The same can be said of a CBDC. CBDCs are antithetical to personal privacy and limited government. Such a massive break from traditional currency would require a centralized system to keep all transactions within a closed-loop environment. Government control over such a system would be extremely dangerous to the freedom of people. From start to finish, a CBDC is controlled by a central bank like the Fed. Allowing them this much control over our everyday lives is a slippery slope we cannot afford to slide down.
The administrative state’s surveillance powers are already too great, and CBDCs are a tool that the federal government could easily turn into a weapon against political opponents. The Fed doesn’t need more power; it needs less.
There’s no question that this is about the far Left’s ambition for more power. CBDCs are about containment, surveillance, and control. The creation of a CBDC would give the government unprecedentedaccess to our personal financial information, including information about what we buy or what causes we support. I don’t want the government monitoring what I pick up at the grocery store, much less which organizations I give my charitable contributions to. Mark my words: A programmable and trackable currency would be the death knell of personal freedom.
Imagine giving the same federal government that weaponized the FBI and Department of Justice against the Trump administration, turned the IRS on conservative organizations, used social media companies to violatefree speech, and treated concerned parents like domestic terrorists the power to monitor your every cent.
To see the effects of a CBDC, we need only look toward Communist China. The Chinese Communist Party is working to integrate the digital yuan into its tyrannical social credit system. The regime will settle for nothing less than total omnipotence, and the Chinese people are left to suffer. This should be proof enough that the United States should run in the opposite direction, but once again, President Joe Biden is playing “follow the leader” with one of the world’s worst dictators.
The World Economic Forum, too, is actively promoting the use of CBDCs, even saying the quiet part out loud: This system will give the government control over all transactions.
We’re already seeing this in action. The government can track your credit score, and the Biden administration is trying to use this power to force homebuyers with good credit to subsidize those with bad credit. Additionally, some credit card companies track gun control purchases and log them in their ledgers. Under a CBDC, this type of targeting will only worsen.
We are about to cross the Rubicon. A CBDC would create a dystopian future for conservative and religious people. We should not have to worry about big brother, or in this case, Uncle Joe, looking over our shoulders every time we make a purchase. Giving the federal government this much power over our transactions will decimate our liberties.
This is freedom’s red line. If we allow the Fed to cross it, all bets are off.
Mark Green is a U.S. representative for Tennessee, a physician, and combat veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, where he served three tours. He serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.This column first appeared in the Washington Examiner.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s law enforcement arm has increased the reward from $5,000 to $20,000 for information that could lead to a civil penalty or criminal conviction for the shooting of seven endangered Steller sea lions in May 2023.
The sea lions were killed near Cordova in the Copper River Delta. They were discovered on May 16 by members of NOAA’s Protected Resources Division. A joint effort with the Alaska Wildlife Troopers confirmed the sea lions had been shot, with no evidence of any intention to harvest or salvage them.
The western population of Steller sea lions has protected status under the Endangered Species Act, which prohibits harassment, harm, or killing of listed species, except for very limited exceptions. The Marine Mammal Protection Act also forbids the killing of marine mammals in most circumstances.
During fisheries up and down the coast, opportunistic sea lions and seals raid the nets of fishermen working their brief seasonal openings. In 2018, a skipper and his crew were found guilty of killing several Stellers in an incident that had happened in 2015 in the same area as this year’s slaughter.
Since the first seven sea lions were found dead of gunshot in May, further surveys have discovered 15 more carcasses.
Anyone with relevant information may contact the investigating agent directly at (907) 250-5188 or the NOAA’s Enforcement Hotline at (800) 853-1964. To report deceased, injured, or stranded marine mammals, contact the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network at (877) 925-7773.
Most Americans with a basic fifth-grade education know about the Seven Wonders of the World, and may even be able to name a couple of them — the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon being among the most memorable of the original ancient list, of which only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains. The Seven Wonders of the World were always manmade creations. Until now.
President Joe Biden, speaking in Arizona today, got it all mixed up in his head. Now there are nine wonders, and they are now not manmade at all.
“And folks, it’s not hyber- — hyperbole to suggest that there is no national treasure — none that is grander than the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon, one of the Earth’s nine wonders — wonders of the world, literally. Think of that. You know, it’s amazing. An enduring symbol of America to the entire world,” Biden said.
Later, he corrected himself and said the 6,000 gorge cut by the Colorado River is one of the seven wonders of the world.
Like President Jimmy Carter did before him in 1978, Biden used his authority today under the Antiquities Act to set aside almost 1 million acres of public land around Grand Canyon National Park as a new national monument “to help right the wrongs of the past and conserve this land of ancestral footprints for all future generations.”
If one were to measure the natural wonder status of the Grand Canyon by depth, then Hell’s Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border wins hands down. The Snake River cuts a line that is 7,993 feet beneath the canyon rim, some 2,000 feet deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Biden then said that heat is the number one weather-related killer, a demonstrably false statement, but in line with his climate change agenda. In actuality, more people die of cold weather than heat, even though more people live in hot climates than cold.
“Preserving these lands is good, not only for Arizona but for the planet,” Biden said. “It’s good for the economy. It’s good for the soul of the nation.”
Using his platform as president, Biden then mixed in some campaigning in his speech, attacking Donald Trump and his supporters, and singling out the “Make America Great Again” movement for special scorn.
Speaking before regalia-clad and headdress-topped Native Americans in Red Butte, Biden said the new designation would help the federal government live up to its treaty obligations. Some tribal members were forced out of their homes, he said, when the Grand Canyon was made into a national park.
“At a time when some seek to ban books and bury history, we’re making it clear that we can’t just choose to learn what we want to learn,” Biden said, talking about the cultural war that he and Democrats have waged on American families.
Miners, national security analysts, and others have argued that Biden just locked up the richest deposits of uranium in the country. It’s mineral essential to national security, and not having access to it will make America more dependent on Russia.
Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas and chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Arizona, sent a letter to Biden on Tuesday pointing out that the new monument designation would “permanently withdraw the richest and highest-grade uranium deposits in the United States from mining—deposits that are far outside the Grand Canyon National Park.”
Fox News’ Jesse Watters commented, “Joe Biden blocked uranium mining today on a million acres bordering the Grand Canyon. Why would Biden block mining for an element used for nuclear power plants, electricity, radiation treatments? We already import 95% of our uranium from countries like Russia, Kazakhstan, Africa. And now, Joe is single-handedly losing Africa to Russia, who already controls our Uranium supply chain through its satellites. America already sends a billion dollars to Putin’s crown jewel uranium base, Rosatom. The same Rosatom that took over Uranium One, the company that donated millions to the Clinton Foundation, when Hillary was Obama’s Secretary of State. So why is Joe Biden funding Russia’s dangerous uranium monopoly?”
Biden will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Wednesday, where he talk more about his initiative to change the climate, and then it’s on to Salt Lake City.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday issued a disaster declaration in response to the Mendenhall River flood in Juneau.
On Aug. 5, a large pool of water in Suicide Basin, along the Mendenhall Glacier, released and gushed down the Mendenhall River, eroding the foundations of structures and sending a couple of houses into the river.
Also at risk is the Dimond Field House, an indoor soccer facility that is now positioned closer to the river’s new, expanded bank.
“The State of Alaska has been in contact with the City and Borough of Juneau throughout the flooding event. This declaration will give those affected by the flooding greater access to resources to respond to and recover from the flood,” Gov. Dunleavy said on X/Twitter.
A state disaster can be declared at the request of the local government. On Monday, the Juneau Assembly approved that request in a special meeting, during which it declared a local disaster.
Property owners who have experienced damage or loss as a result of the Aug. 5 Mendenhall River flood event may be eligible for a property reassessment that could result in a lower tax bill for the current year, the city has announced on its website.
The glacial outburst flood resulted in peak water levels of 14.97 feet, exceeding the record of 11.99 feet by almost three feet, or 180% of the volume of water.
Private property sustained the majority of the damage. Following the city’s initial assessment of structures damaged by flooding and bank erosion, eight buildings have been condemned.
Some public infrastructure was damaged, including three wastewater lift stations that were submerged and service temporarily disrupted; all three stations are back in operation. Several private fuel tanks and hazardous materials containers were overturned or damaged by floodwaters.
The View Drive lift station sustained damage that will ultimately require long-term repair work. The Mendenhall River Wastewater Treatment Plant lost property and fenceline, as did the Dimond Park Field House, but did not sustain damage.
The city’s Community Development Department has authorized emergency bank stabilization to protect immediate threats to property and safety.
Juneau is currently working with Waste Management and Alaska Waste to find solutions for residents working to clean and repair property and dispose of debris. Representatives of these companies will be on site in Juneau this week. Further information will be provided as soon as it is available.
Although a state declaration of disaster does not come with support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that could follow, although this is such a localized disaster that it might not qualify for federal assistance.
