Utilities have rejected the Anchorage Assembly’s request for a two-year extension to the planning process for restoring fish habitat to at least some of the long-dammed Eklutna River.
Todd Glass is a lawyer for the Eklutna hydro owners and he said there’s no need to delay the process. She said if the dam had not been in place in the past, then the drinking water demands of the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility, or AWWU, would exhaust the river. And if AWWU pulled as much water as it is legally allowed to, she said the river would run dry for weeks at a time most winters. That’s based on a decade of Eklutna water data and flow rate models previously developed to evaluate the other options.
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