The construction of the Utqiaġvik seawall was fully funded by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds, and a contract is expected to be awarded within a year.
Giant bags along the shoreline in Utqiagvik are intended to buffer against big waves and slow erosion. Construction of a rock revetment is planned.
North Slope Borough Mayor Harry Brower said that building a seawall will help protect the city from coastal erosion. “Our back bedroom, there was nothing under there. The house was going,” Rexford-Brown said. “Pretty soon people were walking under our house.” “This is too close,” Rexford-Brown said, looking at her neighbors’ house near the edge of a cliff. “They don’t even got a walkway no more.”
Utqiagvik no longer permits burials in its older cemetery, due in part to erosion and the inability to use heavy equipment. “They can help for a few days, I guess. But September 26, it’s bad, the waves are big,” Rexford-Brown said. “Sandbags, they are trying to help, and I can see they are. But easily, they can be taken overnight.”
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