DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITES

Unalaska’s long-awaited fishermen’s memorial is almost finished and will go up soon on a hill overlooking the Carl E. Moses Small Boat Harbor. City officials greenlit the location at a council meeting June 25.

Unalaska is no longer using toxic gasses to purify its drinking water. In late May, the city switched from using chlorine gas to a sodium hypochlorite to treat the island’s drinking water in order to reduce wear and tear on local plumbing. Public Utilities Director Steve Tompkins said the new chemical is much safer and easier on the island’s pipes than chlorine gas.

A power outage caught Unalaskans by surprise Thursday evening when most of the island went dark.According to the island’s acting public utilities director, Steve Tompkins, a failed transformer caused the outage, which occurred around 5:30 p.m. and lasted nearly five hours.“Initial indications were that a unit had tripped offline,” Tompkins said. “And it caused an overload on the other unit, which took itself offline. And it resulted in a near universal outage.”Standard Oil Hill was the only area on the island that didn’t lose power during the first outage, he said.

An unplanned electrical outage on Monday left Unalaskans across the island without power.Officials are still investigating the cause of the city-wide…

An unplanned electrical outage on Monday left Unalaska without power for more than an hour and a half.The city-wide outage was caused by a failed transfer…

Updated 6/13/19 at 3:40 p.m. The City of Unalaska is still trying to fix damaged powerhouse equipment that's prompted about five outages in the last week…