River closing in on Glenn

BY ANDREW WELLNER
Frontiersman

SUTTON — State road crews are laying out massive sandbags on the bank of the Matanuska River after erosion has brought the waters dangerously close to the Glenn Highway.

Jack Fullerton, chief of Maintenance and Operations for the Central Region of the state’s Department of Transportation said the road has always been somewhat close to the river. At Mile 63.5 — the spot where they’re laying sandbags — it was probably 12 or 15 feet away.

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