Craig Sanders
32:28 - 32:46
“part of Merrill Field sits on a landfill. And so we are looking at how that impacts future development.”
- Speaker
- Craig Sanders
- Timestamp
- 32:28 – 32:46
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 15, 2026
From the transcript
So as part of the inventory effort, we're also looking at the environmental aspects that impact the airport and the local community. And so through this process, in the, in the inventory chapter, we're documenting 13 environmental categories, and they include topics such as noise, biological resources, solid waste. And so, if you're not aware, part of Merrill Field sits on a landfill. And so we are looking at how that impacts future development. And you know what the ramifications of that kind of, you know, presence of that landfill, what that looks like in the future.
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