A final shipment of anodes arrived in Wrangell late last month and divers will install them at three harbor locations throughout April. Anodes are a critical piece of infrastructure – they slow down the corrosion of metal pilings that hold floats in position in the harbor.RELATED:“The anodes protect the pilings from basically rotting away,” he said.
Wrangell’s borough manager, Mason Villarma, said out of all the locations, Heritage Harbor is the primary focus. “Heritage Harbor was the worst site, just with all the vessels there that conduct DC currents that don’t really have anything to latch on to other than the pilings themselves,” he said. “There’s some hotspots there, so Heritage getting those on there will be the biggest concern.”An anode protects a piling at the Fish & Game Float
Miller asks patrons to keep an eye out for divers and to give them space so they can complete the work.