The National Weather Service has issued a high wind watch for Juneau from 6 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12 through 9 a.m. on Wednesday, December 13, and a flood watch from 12 a.m. on Tuesday, December 12 through 9 a.m. Wednesday, December 13. CBJ Docks & Harbors requests all boat owners to check your vessels. Please make sure mooring lines are secure, pumps are working correctly and your boat is not accumulating rainwater.

For more information, please contact Harbormaster Matt Creswell via email at [email protected] or by phone at (907) 586-5255.

A Docks & Harbors Board special meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 4 at 5 p.m. as a public hearing on the proposal to raise all applicable Docks & Harbors rates by 9%, effective January 2024.

The meeting will be held in the Assembly Chambers and via Zoom:

Link: juneau.zoom.us/j/82028755361?pwd=eWVpbWZUYmZnbmkvUUh6NUVJazhVQT09

Or dial: 1-253-215-8782 with ID 868 3708 6564 and Passcode 149006

This public hearing follows a requisite 21-day public notice process which was initiated on September 28th.

This action is the result of multiple years of evaluation, studies, and public outreach. After the public hearing, the Board will make motions and forward recommendations to the Assembly for regulation adoption. The Assembly will, most likely, take up this action at the October 23 Assembly meeting.

The Board is pleased to hear input from the community and can be reached via [email protected].

Information regarding the public notice, study and other communications mentioned above can be found at juneau.org/harbors/proposed-rate-increase.

The City & Borough of Juneau Docks & Harbors will commemorate the successful completion of the Statter Harbor Restroom & Covered Waiting Area project on Friday, June 16. The ribbon-cutting event will commence at 11 a.m., followed immediately by the Docks & Harbors Customer Appreciation cook-out.  The Juneau public is cordially invited to both events.

Attendees should plan to park in the main lot nearest the Harbor Office or in the single parking vehicle stalls of the launch ramp lot (across from Auke Bay Elementary School).  Both parking areas will be free to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Friday.

This ceremony officially opens Phase IIIC and provides new restrooms and covered waiting area in the bus/coach parking lot of Statter Harbor. The general contractor is Dawson Construction who was awarded the $1.5 million contract last fall. The engineer-of-record is PND Engineers and Jensen-Yorba-Wall Architects designed the building.  In the past decade, more than $42 million have been invested in improvements to the Don D. Statter Harbor Facility.

Please contact Port Director Carl Uchytil at [email protected] with any questions.

As part of national Infrastructure Week events,  the City & Borough of Juneau Docks & Harbors will host local members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to discuss Alaska infrastructure.  Port Director Carl Uchytil, P.E. and ADOT bridge engineer Leslie Daugherty, P.E.  will present the results of the 2021 ASCE-Alaska Infrastructure Report Card at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, in the Assembly Chambers. The public is cordially invited to attend.

Infrastructure Week takes place in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country every May. For over a decade, industry advocates and practitioners, including ASCE, have organized this week-long series to spotlight the role infrastructure plays in supporting our economy and our quality of life.

The concept of a report card to grade the nation’s infrastructure originated in 1988 with the congressionally chartered National Council on Public Works Improvement report. Since then ASCE has updated the national report card every four years. With each new report – in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, and now 2021 – the methodology of the Report Card has been rigorously assessed so as to take into consideration all of the changing elements that affect America’s infrastructure. In addition to the national report, each state ASCE produces a statewide Report Card. This will be presented on Wednesday.

For more information, please contact Port Director Carl Uchytil at [email protected].