A handful of residents on the Kenai Peninsula have been battling surface and groundwater flooding for more than a month.
On Tuesday, Borough Mayor Mike Navarre issued a disaster declaration for the area just south of Kenai, a quarter mile inland from Cook Inlet.
The impacted area is roughly 6,000 acres of mostly swamp and wetlands. Governor Sean Parnell took a brief tour of the damage Monday while he was in Kenai for unrelated business.
Shaylon Cochran is a host and reporter at KDLL in Kenai. He’s reported on fishing, energy, agriculture and local politics since coming to Alaska in 2011. He has worked at KDLL/KBBI on the Kenai Peninsula, where he picked up lots of new hobbies, like smoking salmon, raising chickens, skiing and counting RV’s. He holds a bachelors degree in Journalism from Iowa State University.
