Paul Trissel
30:55 - 31:44
“this, this outfall sludge removal has, has moved itself to the top of the utility's overall projects that has to be taken care of, um, immediately. We don't have a choice on the timetable on that.”
- Speaker
- Paul Trissel
- Timestamp
- 30:55 – 31:44
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- North Pole
- Captured at
- October 29, 2026
From the transcript
Um, this, this outfall sludge removal has, has moved itself to the top of the utility's overall projects that has to be taken care of, um, immediately. We don't have a choice on the timetable on that. Um, Tim Glidden, the previous, uh, Director of City Services, and I sat down with DEC when he first got hired on And, uh, went through with DEC all the options that we could think of to try to extend this, and that is not an option. And this wasn't any low-level people at DEC, so our time has run out on that. And that's, that's where the focus migrated to, was trying to figure out a, a plan for this.
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