Army Corps of Engineers

Kenai acquiring land for bluff erosion

Kenai’s municipal government is steadily buying the land necessary for a planned mile-long rock berm meant to halt the three-feet-per-year erosion wearing away the ground… Continue reading

 

Army Corps leaders speak on Kenai bluff erosion

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct the date of the meeting to July 6. Last week Kenai residents provided input on one… Continue reading

 

This computer-generated graphic, included in a U.S Army Corps of Engineers report on the Kenai bluff erosion mitigation project, illustrates the Army Corps’ preferred plan to create a rock berm at the base of the bluff, allowing it naturally shift to a stable slope in the next 3 to 15 years, according to the Corps’ projection.

Army Corps finds negative cost-benefit of Kenai bluff erosion project

In a new report on a collaboration with the city of Kenai to halt erosion on the nearly mile-long bluff below Old Town Kenai, the… Continue reading

 

Kenai bluff erosion project inches forward

In the race between geology and bureaucracy that has constituted Kenai’s bluff erosion mitigation attempts, geology continues to win. The 18-year-old project to halt the… Continue reading

The tide and wind waves eat at the bottom of Kenai Bluff during high tide Sunday evening below Toyon Way in Kenai.

Kenai bluff erosion cost-share agreement in progress

A cost-share agreement between Kenai and the Army Corps of Engineers for a study relating to Kenai’s bluff erosion is close to realization. According to… Continue reading

The tide and wind waves eat at the bottom of Kenai Bluff during high tide Sunday evening below Toyon Way in Kenai.
Kenai makes small steps on bluff erosion project

Kenai makes small steps on bluff erosion project

Which moves faster: the geological process of bluff erosion, or the bureaucratic process of project funding? According to a 2007 Army Corps of Engineers report,… Continue reading

Kenai makes small steps on bluff erosion project

Army Corps of Engineers and Kenai agree to share cost of bluff erosion study

After two days of meetings in Kenai City Hall between Kenai administrators and regional and national officials from the Army Corps of Engineers, the two… Continue reading

Eroding at roughly 3 feet per year, the Kenai River bluffs encroach on an outbuilding of Paul Karaffa’s property on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in Old Town Kenai, Alaska. About half of Karaffa’s bluff-top land, on which he’s lived since 1944, has eroded away. The eroded portion is among 22 mostly underwater properties that the city of Kenai is seeking to buy to carry out a bluff-erosion prevention project, tentatively scheduled to start construction in 2019. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai seeks land for bluff erosion project

Kenai is seeking land while the Army Corps of Engineers has set a new timeline and reached a new preferred project design for bluff erosion… Continue reading

Eroding at roughly 3 feet per year, the Kenai River bluffs encroach on an outbuilding of Paul Karaffa’s property on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in Old Town Kenai, Alaska. About half of Karaffa’s bluff-top land, on which he’s lived since 1944, has eroded away. The eroded portion is among 22 mostly underwater properties that the city of Kenai is seeking to buy to carry out a bluff-erosion prevention project, tentatively scheduled to start construction in 2019. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)