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AUGUST 2022
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Turnagain'sNewConcept
MEETS YUKON REQUESTS: extends the dock out maintains the 630 ft length of the dock (+ reclaims one cell)
Completion date: Dec 2024
Design Changes
Since the RAISE grant application and award, the Borough has made dramatic changes to the Lutak Dock project based on concepts developed by a new contractor, Turnagain Marine Construction.
Turnagain's design perfectly meets the specifications requested by Yukon mining interests at that 3/24/22 meeting, including the deeper draft accomplished by pushing the dock face out and maintaining the entire 630 foot (now 700 feet, since the 65% design changes came out) dock face. Their request for project completion is December 2024.
Turnagain's 65% plan
Even though previous engineering firms had determined that encapsulation was risky and possibly infeasible, the Borough is now proposing to encapsulate the old decaying dock and build a new dock on top of it.
Turnagain's
basis of design tells us that they are designing for a Handymax (or Supramax) ship and very heavyduty mobile harbor cranes, as well as a dock surface that can withstand extremely heavy loads.
