0:41
Paul Trissel
24:25 - 25:06
“Sewer— the projects that we have going on is, uh, in, uh, 2024, 2025. What year are we in? 2025, Um, engineers that the city had, uh, utilized in order to find a solution to the outfall issue that the city has a notice of violation for— the river went dry and it's moving south. And so our braid of the Tanana, which we dump our effluent from the wastewater treatment plant into, no longer has flow from the Tanana. Not reliably.”
- Speaker
- Paul Trissel
- Timestamp
- 24:25 – 25:06
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- North Pole
- Captured at
- October 29, 2026
From the transcript
Sewer— the projects that we have going on is, uh, in, uh, 2024, 2025. What year are we in? 2025, Um, engineers that the city had, uh, utilized in order to find a solution to the outfall issue that the city has a notice of violation for— the river went dry and it's moving south. And so our braid of the Tanana, which we dump our effluent from the wastewater treatment plant into, no longer has flow from the Tanana. Not reliably.
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