The Port of Alaska gets a $68.7 million dollar federal grant
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Port of Alaska is benefiting from federal infrastructure funds with a recently announced award of $68.7 million in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
“We have to remember, 90% of the people in the state get their food and supplies from these docks right here,” Bronson said on a recent visit to the port. “If it fails structurally, we are in really big trouble.” But before the work can begin, the port needs to address another issue the grant will help pay for —removing much of the soil on the north end of the port, which was part of a failed expansion project.
“It was not constructed to create stable land,” Jager said. “So it looks like land, smells like land, tastes like land. It’s not stable like land, and in the event of an earthquake, it will likely liquefy and start to slide.”
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