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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.
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
Glacial outburst floods aren't a new phenomenon in Alaska, but climate change is scrambling the geography of risk.
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and ...
The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacial lake is causing a river to surge to a record level and is threatening ...
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Temporary barriers spared Alaska’s capital from severe flooding. A long-term solution is elusive
This year, a giant wall of reinforced sandbags erected with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held back the worst ...
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