Karl Emmons
22:08 - 22:50
"At our cost, you know, sending our crew to empty honey buckets, get piled out the back door and all that stuff. You know, I think that, uh, that people just don't understand how these things work. And to put them into a housing project where people there don't necessarily understand how a flush toilet works, it's going to be pretty tough to, uh, to, to maintain."
“At our cost, you know, sending our crew to empty honey buckets, get piled out the back door and all that stuff. You know, I think that, uh, that people just don't understand how these things work. And to put them into a housing project where people there don't necessarily understand how a flush toilet works, it's going to be pretty tough to, uh, to, to maintain.”
- Speaker
- Karl Emmons
- Timestamp
- 22:08 – 22:50
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Nome
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
At our cost, you know, sending our crew to empty honey buckets, get piled out the back door and all that stuff. You know, I think that, uh, that people just don't understand how these things work. And to put them into a housing project where people there don't necessarily understand how a flush toilet works, it's going to be pretty tough to, uh, to, to maintain. I mean, they're gonna— the housing authorities I mean, when they're out there and they're up to their elbows, you know, trying to fix a pump or a grinder or something, you know, it's, uh, you're not going to find anybody around here that hasn't got a real best friend, a whole bunch of money to do that. I thought they were— they're not doing sewer.
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