The Nushagak River is running low this spring, complicating barge traffic

Last winter was cold but dry, and now the small spring runoff is leaving water levels low around Southwest Alaska. Residents along the Nushagak River say the water level is the lowest it’s been in years.
“I don’t know, I have been out here 25 plus years and it is the lowest I have seen it, and everybody I talk to say they have never seen it that low,” Richard King of Ekwok said.
He worries what the low water level could mean later in the summer.
“There are two conce