City of Old Harbor's stated purpose is to provide safer runway conditions for increased runway use as defined in the “Airport Layout Plan Approval, Airspace Case 07AAL-203-NRA. The runway would also be expanded to accommodate larger aircraft predicted to be needed in the near future. The proposed work would extend the existing runway at the Old Harbor Airport. At present the runway is a 2,750-foot by 60-foot gravel runway. The extension would extend the runway 300-foot to the south and approximately 1700‑foot to the North. The work would include (a) placement of approx. 165,000 cubic yards (cy) of rock fill on approx. 2.5 acres of marine intertidal lands northeast of the end of the current runway, to include exterior armor rock; (b) placement of mixed fill (excess rock and organic soil) in 9.23 acres of terrestrial wetlands adjacent to the airfield; (c) filling of 2,011 linear feet of three stream channels (less than 1 acre total) adjacent to the airfield in the course of expanding the airfield prism. Please contact Heather Boyer at (907) 753-2877, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at Heather.L.Boyer@usace.army.mil if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-1986-95-M1, Sitkalidak Strait_PN