As of Thursday, river observers said there had not been any reported flooding impacts to structures like homes or businesses.
Ice jams from breakup on the Kuskokwim River are causing high water to inundate many lower river communities.
As of Thursday, there had not been any reported flooding impacts to structures like homes or businesses, but some roads are covered with water and it’s affected at least two villages’ drinking water. KYUK’s Sage Smiley got an update from the National Weather Service’s river observers Thursday afternoon and joined Alaska News Nightly host Casey Grove from Bethel.: Sage, what are the most serious concerns right now?: Well, much of the Lower Kuskokwim is inundated along the banks of the river itself, as well as along the tributaries and well into the tundra.
So the biggest place to look at is definitely Kwethluk. They’ve got the biggest impacts of anywhere so far this breakup season, and only one road in the whole village isn’t underwater. Here’s what Weather Service hydrologist Johnse Ostman said about it:: Almost all of their roads are flooded. Their school is an island, which is their evacuation point. The village has now been cut off from the airstrip because of water over the roads.
The National Weather Service says the water in Bethel seems to be coming more from the tundra than from the river, actually, because of that flooded tundra, that sort of leaching water from ice jams that happened earlier in the week. There’s also ice jammed below in Napaskiak, and residents in lower parts of town in Bethel, if that ice jam doesn’t break, can expect water to keep rising.
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