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Alaska is set somewhat in a world of its own when it comes to its geography, and it’s also set apart in how it manages solid waste, largely because of that unique landscape. The far northwest state is two and a half times larger than Texas but has a population of less than 750,000, translating to about 1.3 people per square mile. Nearly a third of Alaskans live in rural communities with no access to the state’s few and distant lined, class 1 landfills and depend on unlined sites to dispose of their waste, though they and operators are supported by Alaska’s Department of Environmental Co...

Posted by Sage Smiley | Jan 27, 2021 Influent pipes at Wrangell’s water plant. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) . Read part two here . Read part four here. In the first installments of KSTK’s series on Wrangell’s Water Woes, we looked at how ageing reservoirs and a plant ill-suited to treat the city’s source water contribute to water flow issues in town. But problems at the plant have also led to Wrangell’s water to at times fail to meet state water quality standards.  In this third part of the series, KSTK takes a look at one of the reasons why: disinfection byproducts that end up in the cit...