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School district meets deadline to move fuel away from eroding Kuskokwim riverbank
The Coast Guard had given the Lower Kuskokwim School District two weeks to move the fuel away from the riverbank when the erosion reached 76 feet from the nearest fuel tank.
Coast Guard gives school district until Aug. 30 to remove fuel from tanks threatened by Kuskokwim River erosion
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s tanks hold about 36,000 gallons of fuel and are sitting less than 100 feet from the eroding Kuskokwim River bank.
With fall storm season looming, a struggle to keep one village school’s fuel tanks from falling into the Kuskokwim River
The Lower Kuskokwim School District is developing a plan to avert environmental disaster
New water tests show Bethel lead and copper levels meet federal standards
A large infrastructure project last fall is the suspected cause of elevated copper and lead levels discovered at some locations in Bethel’s City Subdivision.
Napakiak loses access to a main road as riverbank erosion persists
Storms tore more land away from Napakiak’s already heavily eroded riverbank last weekend. About 8 feet of bank fell into the Kuskokwim River, adding to the more than 100 feet of shoreline that has already been lost this year.