Talk on the Rock: Wrangell's Borough Manager Mason Villarma on infrastructure projects, Emergency Operating Plan and solar energy - KSTK
Talk on the Rock: Wrangell's Borough Manager Mason Villarma on infrastructure projects, Emergency Operating Plan and solar energy - KSTK
Episode 19: There’s always something going on in Wrangell, like incoming funds for projects and sometimes significant weather. Borough Manager Mason Villarma talks with KSTK’s News Director Colette Czarnecki about what the recent plans are in the area. He says that the city has received $40 million dollars in funds so far this year. Some of these funds include revitalizing the harbor, improving school infrastructure and working on an emergency access road.
Villarma also spoke about the Emergency Operation Plan, which is in the works. As for natural disasters, he says that the Alaska Department of Transportation installed a local weather station near the site of last November’s landslide, at 11 mile on Zimovia Highway. Current data from the weather station can be found at the National Weather Service Weather and Hazards Data Viewer and NWS Timeseries Viewer.
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