Leader/Guides: Ed Clarke, Soils Alaska P.C., Elden Johnson, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., O.D. Odsather, Consultant, Lee Schoen, Consultant
Duration: June 27-28, 2008
Costs: $600 (Pre-registration $100) If there are questions, contact Field Trip leader.
No. of Participants: (Max 24)

Description: Four engineers involved in the constructions of the building of TAPS will present the detailed story of how engineering problems were solved during and after construction of the pipeline.

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Supplemental Materials:
1983 DGGS Guidebook (21MB)

Field Trip Itinerary:

Day 1, 27 June: Fly to Prudhoe Bay. Pump Station 1, Fuel Gas Line, Happy Valley water well, roadway through cut in permafrost, construction of elevated pipe across a talik, avoidance of rock glaciers in Atigun Pass, observations on a pipeline reroute required by massive ice under the Dietrich River; overnight at Coldfoot Motel.

Day 2, 28 June: 1969 winter haul road erosion features, limits of glacial advance, above ground and below ground construction challenges, non-glaciated terrain, tors, mainline valve replacement, Yukon River bridge, forest fire impacts, Pump Station 7 soils investigations.