Schools in Glennallen are closed today and the public sewer system is shutdown as flooding continues. Glennallen is among numerous Alaska communities hit by floodwaters in recent days from breakup on rivers and creeks.
Officials say the floodwaters have already tore some buildings off their foundations and inundated others. Photos also show high waters swamping streets and airstrips. No injuries have been reported.
“We do have portable generators and portable potties,” Claggett said. “We’re kind of looking at our options to make sure we have functional service as soon as possible.” “There was at least one that was carried all the way away, and there were others – there are others – that were moved that are beyond repair,” Wright said.“They have no electricity; the generators were flooded,” he said. “The clinic, which is fairly new, built in the last few years, the insulation got wet so that will have to be remediated. The water plant got about a foot and half of water inside of it.
Wright said the local tribe did an excellent job evacuating elders and children out of the community. It’s not clear how many people are still in Circle, which had a listed population of 42 in the 2020 census. Plumb said villages farther downriver are now facing the same slug of water and ice, from what he called “about a 40-mile run of ice.”
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