Crooked Creek

KYK should have them.

But there will be a public hearing in Georgetown, one in Antioch, or no, in Crooked Creek, Antioch, Bethel, and also a virtual public hearing on this proposed tailings pond facility.

But This report shows very dire consequences to our people, our land, our air, our water, our river, our salmon, our survival with any single breach of this tailing ponds.

And that's just one aspect of the proposed downland that would put our people in jeopardy.

It examines a spill of 27 percent of the dam's contents into the land and waterways surrounding the mine site on the Middle Kuskokwim River.

In that catastrophic scenario, the Army Corps draft report says a spill could devastate fish habitats and aquatic activity in Crooked Creek, a community about 10 miles from the proposed mine site, for decades.

Thousands of acres of wetlands and streams would be buried or eroded.

A spill that large would expose people in Crooked Creek to contaminants, potentially displace members of the community, or even kill people, the report says.

In Bethel, I'm Samantha Watson.

This is Alaska Public Media.