JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker Tuesday extended his thanks to the state agencies, private industry representatives, and private contractors who have been working together to re-open the Dalton Highway. These efforts come in response to flooding on the Sagavanirktok (Sag) River, between miles 390 and 405 of the Dalton Highway, and Governor Walker’s April 7th […]
DEADHORSE, Alaska) — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) increased commercial traffic Tuesday through Miles 395-405 Dalton Highway. Tuesday, 204 vehicles total transited the flooded section of highway. This total includes northbound and southbound traffic. Convoys of up to 50 commercial vehicles began transiting the flooded section of highway northbound at 8 […]
Governor Bill Walker declared a state disaster in response to flooding that has made the Dalton Highway impassable. The state will fund eligible emergency response cost, and eligible repair work, for the water overrun along the Dalton Highway. Beginning March 13, the Sagavanirktok (Sag) River overflowed the Dalton Highway between Mile 390 and Mile 405 […]
The U.S. Midwest region and surrounding states have endured increasingly more frequent floods during the last half-century, according to results of a new study. The researchers, affiliated with the University of Iowa (UI) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), based their findings on daily records collected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 774 […]