The Coast Guard had given the Lower Kuskokwim School District two weeks to move the fuel away from the riverbank when the erosion reached 76 feet from the nearest fuel tank.
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Coast Guard gives school district until Aug. 30 to remove fuel from tanks threatened by Kuskokwim River erosion
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s tanks hold about 36,000 gallons of fuel and are sitting less than 100 feet from the eroding Kuskokwim River bank.
With fall storm season looming, a struggle to keep one village school’s fuel tanks from falling into the Kuskokwim River
The Lower Kuskokwim School District is developing a plan to avert environmental disaster
In rural Alaska, school districts deal with a legacy of unaddressed contamination
Typically, when a contaminated site is discovered it’s up to the landowner — or the person responsible for making the mess — to clean it up. But there are dozens of sites where this process has broken down.
In Goodnews Bay, the Pledge of Allegiance is a way to speak Yup’ik in school
In lieu of a Yup’ik teacher on staff, students at a Southwest Alaska school have started reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Yup’ik.