Comment: I wonder will the old runway get a patch job this year and next? What happens to it when the new runway is built?
I see lots of flood mitigation materials there.
 
I would like to point out to people that these airports are the Alaska version of a highway system. A new good size bridge easily hits 55 million these days. No one screams when a new bridge is built to modern standards. There are no kickbacks just an effort to bring local contractors and workers into the hands on slice of the pie.
 
Why wait for a catastrophe to happen? Safety standards are good. Witness the declining death toll in our resources oriented workforce. Pain in the neck? Oh yeah! But damn its a good thing when less of us are maimed and killed because of accidents.