Several cars, trucks and trailers are submerged in water with oil and gas sheens visibly swirling around.
Tuesday afternoon people who live here were growing increasingly concerned about water contamination.Flooding has happened in Glennallen before, but locals say it hasn’t been to this extent.The flooding happening here is the because of snow melt pouring into Moose Creek.
A 511 report says emergency maintenance crews on the Glenn are working in both directions from milepost 186-188.“The weather warmed up too fast for break up to, you know, do its usually combination,” said Isaac Beshaw, of Glennallen . “It slowly breaks up and then we’re used to it. This year it got so hot, so fast, that everything, wherever it came from, just came down splashing and just flooded the whole thing.
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