After the project cost skyrocketed, the Assembly voted to scale back the protection plan for this year’s flood. The Army ...
Juneau’s flood wall to be rebuilt to withstand glacial outburst floods, double the size of last year
The temporary flood wall along the Mendenhall River just barely protected hundreds of homes from Juneau’s largest glacial outburst flood last summer. Now, city and federal contractors are racing to ...
The specter of progressively damaging floods in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley for years to come had been diminishing in the last several months as plans proceeded to investigate and implement both short ...
In Alaska’s capital, a retreating glacier has turned from postcard backdrop into a recurring threat, sending sudden torrents of water through neighborhoods that once treated it as scenery. The latest ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow ...
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