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Juneau flood barriers and early warning prevent major damage, amid record-breaking glacial outburst
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers stacked along the Mendenhall River largely prevented flooding of the nearby residential area.
Glacial outburst flood reaches record height in Juneau’s Mendenhall River
Update, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday: The Mendenhall River hit a record level as of 6 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. The river is in major flood stage at 16.17 feet and rising, the agency said. That surpasses the record set last year of 15.99 feet.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
A wave of water that gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake and sent a river surging to a new record level is causing flooding ...
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...
'It would have been catastrophic': Juneau's temporary levee protects most homes from record flooding
The temporary levee the city installed along the Mendenhall River this year protected hundreds of homes nearby. But water ...
Officials say new barriers are holding, making for far less damage than during last year’s destructive glacial outburst from ...
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Some Juneau Residents Urged To Evacuate As Mendenhall Glacier Releases Floodwater
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what is officially a record surge of flooding as rainwater ...
The glacial release from Suicide Basin above Mendenhall Lake has begun. A flood warning is in place for Mendenhall Lake near ...
Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...
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