Sitka’s weather stations show steady rainfall during Sep 13-14 storm
Back-to-back storms are blowing through Southeast this weekend (Sep 16-17), but they'll have to pack a lot of punch to top the rainfall totals of the past week.
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Tag: Indian River
Sitka’s SAR team rescues hiker injured from fall
Sitka’s Search and Rescue team rescued an injured hiker on Thursday evening. The hiker was walking across the first bridge on the Indian River Trail when the handrail gave way, and he fell, injuring his ankle.
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Indian River ‘monitoring tool’ may shed light on Sitka’s potential landslide hazard
Former Sitka science teacher and programmer Eric Matthes noticed an extraordinarily rapid rise in the Indian River (Ḵaasda Héen) on a trail run the morning of August 18, 2015. At the same time, three landslides struck in Sitka, one of them deadly. Matthes has since correlated eleven other landslides around Sitka since 2014 with high water events on the river, and developed an online tool that indicates when a rainstorm is producing a possible landslide hazard -- and when it's not.
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After waterfront chase, police arrest suspected drunk boater
The Sitka Police Department stopped a man on a mid evening booze cruise Monday night (6-10-19). After a chase, the police officer on duty arrested the driver at ANB Harbor.
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Land swap removes Sitka’s Indian River from Trust’s logging list
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority board approved its largest land exchange to date earlier this month (1-3-19), sparing over 400 acres in Sitka's Indian River valley from future logging. Through the deal, up to 40,000 acres of land in and around Southeast communities will change hands between the Trust and the U.S. Forest Service.
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