Crews begin efforts to protect Butte, Old Glenn Highway

Alaska Department of Transportation crews stage Armour Rock to be installed along the Old Glenn Highway. (Photo by Patty Sullivan/Mat-Su Borough Public Affairs)Crews are beginning work to quell the rapid advance of the Matanuska River in the community of Butte.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough public information officer Patty Sullivan says work began Tuesday.
“They felled all the giant cottonwoods; the trees are all down in a stretch there,” Sullivan said. “And the plan is that they&r