This post is an update on the river erosion situation in Noatak, where a new channel is being cut by the Noatak River.

As the river changes and erosion happens along the banks, new channels are being formed around the community.

A fisherman was coming home from fishing last night and noticed (what he thought was) a coffin sticking out of the old gravesite above one of the markers I used to measure erosion with last summer. It turned out to not be a coffin, but rather an old air duct or metal meat trailer.

Unusual high water all summer in Noatak, causing massive erosion towards the airport and old buried landfill, exposing old trash into the river.

High water in the Noatak River causes erosion near the old dump site.