THE RETURN OF LAKE KALOZ

After an extended construction season which saw new water mains and storm sewers along Lower Mill Bay Rd, Rezanof, and Center Ave, commonly known as the “Y” today’s balmy temperatures showed us what we got for our tax dollars: The Return of Lake Kaloz at the confluence of the Rezanof Straits and the Straits of Mill Bay.

Temperatures soared today to 37.9 degrees Fahrenheit, and some raindrops caused much of the sludge in and lining the roadways to recede. The inland waterways follow the canals dug in the pavement and bypass the storm sewer system, causing a lake at the “Y” on Center Ave.

Doesn’t this make you feel good about the sifting traffic patterns this summer and the jolting that vehicles took along the washboard roadbeds of summer construction?

The “walk ways” along the side of the roads are still impassable so pedestrian traffic has to share the rivers with vehicular traffic often resulting in splashed leggings and soaked socks.

Way to go, city and state planners, who conceived this farce of infrastructure repairing/replacing. We still appear to have the same problems as before this work was undertaken.

It should be noted that some may say that the project has yet to be completed, and conditions may improve when the final “permanent” paving is in place, but The Kodiak Perspective is sceptical. Please prove him wrong.