What a bunch of idiots!! Just look at the picture behind the excavator?? There is no flood, no raging river from bank to bank!! But only a small part of a river running against the east shore of the Matanuska!
What about the 80 percent of the river bed that is dry in the background???
The state of Alaska is spending 1 million dollars for quote: 1,100L x 70W x  6 T a wall to help stop the erosion! At this rate it will cost around 5 million dollars a mile and that's only along the bike path, not protecting any private properties??
Here is my idea that would save the state and mat-su borough hundreds of millions of dollars and property owners of there valuable land and homes!!
Stop the robbing the gravel from valuable dry land like where they are loading trains and start  mining the river beds! Problem Solved!  Just divert the river to the center of the 1/2 mile dry river bed would solve this!! OH THE FISH??? Well all greenys should not live in homes or drive cars if that's how they feel!