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Damage to low-lying homes and bridge reported in wake of Juneau’s record glacial outburst

Authorities are still taking stock of Mendenhall River flooding, but new temporary riverfront barriers appear to have staved ...
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Juneau’s Suicide Basin overtops; Mendenhall residents get evacuation warning

The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement indicating that it could take up to six days for the basin to ...

Record glacial flooding threatens Juneau, residents urged to evacuate

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the ...

Juneau braces as Suicide Basin fills again. Here's what experts know, and don't know, about glacial outburst flooding.

University of Alaska Southeast environmental science professor Eran Hood recalled that it was a sunny summer day in 2011 when an unexpected and potentially perilous situation began to unfold. The ...
Alaska Public Media3d

'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 ...
Anchorage Daily News3d

Glacial outburst flood reaches record height in Juneau’s Mendenhall River

Zaz Hollander is a veteran journalist based in the Mat-Su and is currently an ADN local news editor and reporter. She covers ...

Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing global risk as mountain glaciers melt

Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges ...

Juneau residents get all clear after glacial lake outburst sent debris-filled water rushing down Alaska river

The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a ...

Juneau residents urged to evacuate amid ‘imminent threat’ of glacial outburst flood

Residents of Alaska capital Juneau are being urged to evacuate amid an “imminent threat of catastrophic flooding from a ...
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Suicide Basin reaches capacity; CBJ urges residents in inundation zone to prep for evacuation

The declaration from Dunleavy came after the City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida ...

Alaska glacial melt flooding prompts evacuations in Juneau

Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to ...
Anchorage Daily News5d

With a release imminent, scientists say the scale of flooding in the Mendenhall Valley is hard to predict.

Hood boarded a helicopter to investigate. Flying over the glaciers at the head of the Mendenhall River, he saw collapsed ice ...