Name: City Attorney Bloom (City of Kenai): So that was a different, um, situation as far as ownership of the pore space was concerned. In that case, the city only owned some of the surface estate where the project took place, and when the city litigated that case, it argued that this— the pore space belonged to the owner of the surface estate.
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Description: So that was a different, um, situation as far as ownership of the pore space was concerned. In that case, the city only owned some of the surface estate where the project took place, and when the city litigated that case, it argued that this— the pore space belonged to the owner of the surface estate.

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City Attorney Bloom (City of Kenai)

11:38 - 12:03

“So that was a different, um, situation as far as ownership of the pore space was concerned. In that case, the city only owned some of the surface estate where the project took place, and when the city litigated that case, it argued that this— the pore space belonged to the owner of the surface estate.”

Speaker: City Attorney Bloom (City of Kenai)
Timestamp: 11:38 – 12:03
Transcript: Kenai: 11/04/2026 City Council Meeting
Community: Alaska News
Location: Kenai
Captured at: November 4, 2026

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Councilmember Petty, um, I was just wanting to know if when the pore space that was over there off of Beaver Loop, did the Department of Resource intervene in that process? Mr. Bloom? Yes, uh, Mayor Knackstedt, Councilmember Petty. So that was a different, um, situation as far as ownership of the pore space was concerned. In that case, the city only owned some of the surface estate where the project took place, and when the city litigated that case, it argued that this— the pore space belonged to the owner of the surface estate.

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