February 11, 2021 - 6:26 AM
KENAI, Alaska - An Alaska city plans to outsource engineering services in co-ordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a project to stabilize bluffs along the Kenai River.
Kenai plans to use the Kenai Bluffs Stabilization Project to help maintain an area along the north shore of the river, the Peninsula Clarion reported Tuesday.
The project, which has been in the works for decades, aims to stabilize about 5,000 feet (1,524 metres) of the steep terrain beginning at the mouth of the waterway southwest of Anchorage.
A March 2019 feasibility study conducted by the Corps recommended a protective berm at one end of the bluff. Other options included relocating the river mouth and moving threatened structures.