The Eklutna Power Plant, pictured here on March 1, 2024, is located on the Old Glenn Highway along the Knik River. Water from Eklutna Lake is piped to the plant, where enough electricity is ...

The lake supplies over 90 percent of the municipality's water and about 15 percent of its electricity. According to Mike Dillon, a former supervisor of the Eklutna Power Plant, when it comes to ...

lake water behind the main dam is used to power the Eklutna Power Plant and supply drinking water to Anchorage residents. According to the municipality, Eklutna Lake supplies 86 percent of ...

Last summer, a conservation group teamed up with an Anchorage-area Native tribe to finish removing a defunct dam on the Eklutna ... river’s water into a hydroelectric power plant.

Far more of Eklunta’s water — about 10 times as much or 250 million gallons per day — went in 2016 to Eklutna hydroelectric plant operated by local power utilities, according to AWWU.

Water from 3,420-acre Eklutna Lake is “superb,” said Eklutna Water Treatment Plant superintendent Brian Yonkoske on Tuesday. The massive, 870-foot deep lake is fed by rain runoff and the ...

18—Three Southcentral Alaska utilities that own the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project rejected the Anchorage Assembly's recent call for a two-year halt to their proposed program to restore water ...

The utilities' $57 million plan would use Anchorage's drinking water infrastructure. It would use a portal valve to divert water to the river from the pipe that takes drinking water from Eklutna Lake.

and would not allow for fish passage into Eklutna Lake. The $57 million plan would rely heavily on the city's existing water supply infrastructure to replenish flow. The city in 2017 first made ...

The term sheet was signed between the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility and the three utilities that own the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project, the Chugach Electric Association, the Matanuska ...