Carmacks is a remote village in the Yukon with a population of just 503. Infrastructure is relatively undeveloped, and repairs and rehabilitation present special challenges.
“Basically, the sewer system is the only infrastructure — even water is trucked in,” says Darrell Peters, project facilitator at Yukon Engineering Services.
As part of a review funded by the government of Yukon, Peters identified six manhole barrels that were leaking badly and overwhelming the...