Lutak, AK

After a contentious Tuesday Lutak Dock meeting, there’s still no explanation for why project costs have skyrocketed, and bonding looks a likely future. Even so, the borough’s contracted engineers now say talk of the borough losing grant funding, or otherwise running out of time, is “not credible.”  Over the last two weeks, Moffatt & Nichol […] The post Bonding increasingly likely on Lutak dock appeared first on Chilkat Valley News.

Lutak Dock engineers have released cost estimates showing some iterations of the design nearly doubling the borough’s available project funds. The engineering firm Moffatt & Nichol has been tasked with doing the first round of designs on the dock rebuild, and assured the Haines Borough assembly in recent months it could do so within the […] The post New engineering estimates show Lutak Dock project could cost twice borough’s budget appeared first on Chilkat Valley…

The borough likely doesn’t have enough money to build the Lutak Dock anymore, and staff don’t know how much they’re short by. As Will Steinfeld reports for KHNS, it’s not just money the borough may be running short on — it’s time too.

The Lutak Dock replacement project will likely be over budget, engineers said this week.Engineering firm Moffatt & Nichol told borough staff in a meeting Monday that initial design work has shown higher costs than the company expected earlier this year, when they told borough leaders they were “confident” in the borough’s chosen dock design fitting […] The post Cost overruns likely on Lutak Dock appeared first on Chilkat Valley News.

My name is Jeff Ivaniszek, and my family has a cottage on Lutak Spur Road. I would like to remind folks about bear safety. Please remember that bears are wild animals and not pets. Give them distance, especially sows with cubs. I’m worried that someone is going to get hurt at the Chilkoot River bridge […] The post Chilkoot Bear safety is paramount this time of year appeared first on Chilkat Valley News.