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Angela LaFlamme

41:22 - 41:41

“It was also built on the dump that used to be the city dump, and you know how the ground is.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Merrill Field
Captured at
September 14, 2026

From the transcript

They have repaved and redid the road and the circle around it, and they're doing some other stuff, fixing it up and cleaning it up. But now it's just finding out a way forward. It was also built on the dump that used to be the city dump, and you know how the ground is. Yeah, the city dump, you know, once the run dirt over it, level it out, and they figure out next time. Then they put this, and the bad signs will show.

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