Alakanuk, Alaska

• AK Water System
  

  The EPA compliance orders were issued to these Alaska systems: _ Alakanuk Water System, 570 customers _ Bethel - City S/D Water System, 700 customers _ Bethel Heights Water System, 1,270 customers _ Craig Public Works, ,475 customers _ Emmonak Water System, 820 customers _ Klawock, 904 customers _ Kotlik Water System, 591 customers _ YK Delta ...

• Flow of salmon brings net profits
  

  The 30,000 chum salmon caught during last week's commercial fishing opener on the lower Yukon River far outpaced last year's best effort, pumping a quarter of a million dollars into the pockets of local residents.

• Monday night fishery injects needed cash into lower Yukon villages
  

  The 30,371 chum salmon caught during Monday night's commercial fishing on the lower Yukon River far outpaced last year's best effort, pumping a quarter of a million dollars into the pockets of local residents.

• Parnell Announces Budgets, Signs Major Bills into Law
  

  June 3, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska - Governor Sean Parnell today signed into law the three major appropriations bills: House Bill 300, the FY 2011 Operating Budget; House Bill 302, the FY 2011 Mental Health Operating and Capital Budget; and Senate Bill 230, the FY 2011 Capital Budget, which also includes FY 2010 capital and operating supplemental ...

• Yukon River village shopping for new grocery store
  

  The two men behind Laav'kaq LLC, which means "store" in Yup'ik, said they brought the local tribe into the venture in hopes that profits can benefit everyone in the village of Nunam Iqua.

City Description

Alakanuk (ah-LUCK-uh-nuck) (Alarneq in Central Yup'ik) is a 2nd-class city in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in the western part of the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 652. Alakanuk is located at 62.688890° North, 164.61528° West (Sec. 14, T030N, R082W, Seward Meridian). Alakanuk is located in the Bethel Recording District. Alakanuk is located at the east entrance of Alakanuk Pass, the major southern channel of the Yukon River, 15 miles (24 km) from the Bering Sea. It is part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. It lies 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Emmonak, approximately 162 air miles northwest of Bethel. It is the longest village on the lower Yukon - the development stretches over a 3-mile (4.8 km) area along the Pass. Approximately 25 homes along the bank are being threatened by erosion. The climate of Alakanuk is subarctic, averaging 60 inches (1,500 mm) of snowfall and 19 inches (480 mm) of total precipitation per year. Temperatures range from between -25 to 79 °F (26 °C). Heavy winds are frequent during the fall and winter. The Yukon River is used as an ice road during freeze-up, from November through

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Wade Hampton Census Area

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 106.189512524 km squared

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