WRANGELL — Confronted with an engineering report that cited “concern for potential failure of the ramp,” Wrangell borough on Thursday evening, March 13, notified freight haulers that the municipally owned barge ramp downtown was closed, immediately.
The borough made arrangements for the weekly freight barge to use the old sawmill dock at the Marine Service Center as a temporary unloading and loading site, Borough Manager Mason Villarma said Friday, March 14.
“This should have happened some time ago,” he said of shutting down the 47-year-old steel ramp which suffers from significant corrosion a...
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