While crews from Metco Alaska continue to remove landslide debris, the City of Seward is also engaging the services of Advanced Blasting Services to scale the landslide and dislodge loose rocks from above in the Lowell Point Road landslide.
The city will carefully coordinate the activities of Metco Alaska and Advanced Blasting Services. Depending upon the scaling crew’s success in stabilizing the slide area manually, the city may take additional measures to blast the mountainside with explosives in order to bring stability.
The safety of the crews and the public is paramount, and activities are being monitored closely. The area of greatest concern is the space between the 2020 landslide to the south and the current slide, where the state geologist has identified a large crack in the landscape. City officials visited the site by boat recently and observed regular and continual shedding of debris from the top southerly portion of the slide area.
Residents are requested to cooperate by staying clear of Lowell Point Road from both directions. Barricades are set up and manned at the Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel waterfall area. It remains unknown how long the road will remain closed.
The city has made parking available for Lowell Point residents and visitors at the South Harbor Uplands near the Harbor so they can embark and debark the water taxi shuttle being furnished by Millers Landing.
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