More than three months after the state’s division of water approved plans for a revised wastewater discharge system at the Palmer Project, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner vacated the division’s decision and remanded it for further review.
The remand, issued Sept. 6, followed a formal request from the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan (CIV) for a hearing about the division of water’s decision. CIV and conservation groups have raised concerns about a…