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| Solid Waste Program |
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BACKHAUL PROGRAM RECEIVES AWARD FROM HARVARD The Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council, a Denali Commission grantee, has been recognized by the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Institute as a Top 50 award winner in the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards Program. The watershed council is comprised of sixty-six indigenous tribes working together to improve solid waste systems in communities along the Yukon River. The watershed council has removed six million pounds of hazardous materials and recyclables through backhauling and recycling solid waste. The watershed council utilizes commercial aircraft and barges that would otherwise return empty after delivering freight to remote Alaska communities generally inaccessible by road. |
