Sewage outfall line could be back in one piece by April

It’s been almost four months since an anchor line pulled up and bent the deepwater discharge pipe from Wrangell’s wastewater treatment plant, cutting off the outflow, but the repair work is going out for bid and the borough hopes to have everything back to normal by April.

Borough crews will restore the normal flow through the buried discharge pipe near City Park just as soon as the contractor completes the underwater repairs, said Public Works Director Tom Wetor.

Crews had dug up the pipe on the beach and cut into the line so that the treated wastewater could spill out into the tidal area and...

 

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