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The Selawik Boardwalk Survey

By Daryl Moistner

Not your typical village 3 wheeler

DC 4... not exactly air worthy anymore

Good digs for a change...

Selawik ... this project is a survey to determine road right-of-ways for new Boardwalk construction. Like many other Alaskan villages the streets are actually boardwalks accommodating pedestrians and 4 wheelers. There are no regular vehicles in town, no regular roads . Selawik is a dry town in that Alcohol is illegal to import or consume. Except last night a rum runner got through and the entire village lit up. Drunk people and kids on 4 wheelers raced back and forth all night long catching air on that rise in the boardwalk to the left and making quite the noise. One guy didn't survive the party by putting his head in a noose over a breakup with a girlfriend. They hauled his body past us the next day for a flight to Kotzebue. That's one helluva way to get yourself out of Selawik.

There's the local gas station in the distance. 9 bucks a gallon.

Here's City Hall and the Fire Station. You can see here why new Boardwalk needs to go up. There was a fire at a residence while we were surveying...the response is practically every 4 wheeler in town showing up with an assortment of fire extinguishers and buckets .... The Alaskan Bucket Brigade.

The village is powered by 4 wind turbines and a generator.

Most of Selawik is actually on an island inside the Selawik river. The is a bridge that allows the 4 wheeler traffic to access the village from the air strip.