Solid Waste Solutions in Rural Alaska::
Additional Success Stories from Rural Alaska:

Chefornak

Contacts:
   Johnathon Lewis
   907/867-8306
   agginraq@yahoo.com

   Anna Abraham
   ms_annaabraham83@yahoo.com

   Jessica Lewis
   jessi_0386@yahoo.com

Without heavy equipment, Chefornak was in a similar situation as Tununak. By negotiating with an in-town water project, they were able to use an excavator and pay an operator to cover and dig a trench for the community to use even though they lack cover material. Without heavy equipment the dump will be difficult to maintain, but it buys the community precious time and space, and reduces drastically the direct contact exposure of visiting the dump. During the frequent flooding, it also diverts much of the leachate created to drain through soil versus overland, removing in the process a large volume of contaminants that otherwise flow directly to the creek that leads to their subsistence river.