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New sandbag-style barriers installed along a river in Alaska’s capital city held back record levels of flooding and prevented ...
When the peak of the annual glacial outburst flood hit early Wednesday morning in Juneau, newly installed flood barriers ...
Because the flooding has been a growing concern, city officials have installed emergency flood barriers along several miles ...
City officials say the flood threat has ended and credit barriers with preventing more damage from the Mendenhall Glacier ...
These floods, which began more than a decade ago, have become increasingly destructive in recent years and now pose a ...
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially ...
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
Each summer in the mountains above Juneau, Alaska, meltwater from the massive Mendenhall Glacier flows into mountain lakes ...
For the third consecutive year, a wave of water gushed out of an Alaskan glacial lake, threatening the state’s capital city ...
After waters peaked at 16.65 feet, newly installed HESCO barriers and early alerts spared schools, homes and businesses from ...