Obama spent $29 million building inaccessible port

(KUCB Radio, Alaska) While Akutan’s new airport has received considerable attention and scrutiny for being expensive and hard to access, another large infrastructure project on the island that suffers some of the same problems has mostly flown under the radar.

Over the last two years, Knik Construction has converted what was once a flat stretch of tundra at the end of Akutan Bay into a full-size boat harbor.

“We’ve excavated almost a million cubic yards of material,” says project manager Craig Bauld.