Scrap barge accepting metal through Saturday - no charge

Residents have until Saturday afternoon to get rid of scrap metal, free of charge, including vehicles.

Juneau-based Channel Construction will have its barge at the former sawmill site at 6.3-Mile Zimovia Highway and is accepting any type of scrap metal, as long as any oil, gasoline or other fuels and fluids have been drained, the borough announced last week.

The company collects scrap metal throughout Southeast, hauling it south for proper disposal or recycling. In late 2018, Channel Construction picked up an estimated 50 tons of scrap on one run in Haines.

The borough last Friday issued a reminder to residents that Channel Construction will be open at the mill site 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Saturday. The company has been accepting scrap all week.

For more information, contact Channel Construction — not City Hall — at 907-209-9393 or 907-723-7551.

While in Wrangell, Channel Construction picked up the steel from the abandoned 60-foot tug, the Bee, which sank at Shoemaker Harbor in early January amid heavy snow and freezing temperatures. The borough paid a contractor about $21,000 to raise the vessel so that it could be taken apart and removed from the harbor.

“Channel Construction has removed all the steel, so all we have left is wood that will be hauled to the dump and burned,” Harbormaster Steve Miller reported to the port commission last week.