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Paul Trissel
27:00 - 27:23
“The only other option that we have is a brand new wastewater plant. We would have to meet water quality standards at end of pipe, and then we can dump that onto the ground, we can inject it into the ground, we can put it anywhere because basically it's just clean, clean, clean water.”
- Speaker
- Paul Trissel
- Timestamp
- 27:00 – 27:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- North Pole
- Captured at
- October 29, 2026
From the transcript
There's already a road basically access getting to the Tanana, very nice flow. We started with Stantec just to see if it was a viable option. Would DEC give us the, uh, the time of day and looking at it, at changing where our effluent is? The only other option that we have is a brand new wastewater plant. We would have to meet water quality standards at end of pipe, and then we can dump that onto the ground, we can inject it into the ground, we can put it anywhere because basically it's just clean, clean, clean water.
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