It’s not quite an election, but if most property owners formally object to paying about $6,300 apiece to install military-grade flood barriers in an area of the Mendenhall Valley vulnerable to glacial ...
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Installation of HESCO barriers intended to protect hundreds of Mendenhall Valley homes from glacial outburst floods began Monday on Killewich Drive, with the first phase of the semipermanent levee ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — During the week of Aug. 11, 2025, the Mendenhall Glacier released its yearly glacier lake outburst flood, also known as a jökulhlaup — pronounced yah-cuh-laup. In preparation for ...
The City of Laredo and Border Patrol are both beginning studies into what new border barriers could mean for flooding along ...
Water continues to rise along the Mendenhall River during Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) In a special Assembly meeting Thursday, the ...
Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...
WAS DONE AT THE STATION BECAUSE OF FLOODING. THE INSTALL TAKES JUST MINUTES, BUT CITY OFFICIALS SAY THESE METAL PLANKS COULD PROTECT BUILDINGS. T STOPS OR EVEN HOMES. SHOULD THERE BE A MAJOR FLOODING ...
Even though the berm is operational in time for the 2026 flood season, restoration of the adjacent river pathway and public ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Located 12 miles from Downtown New Orleans, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal barrier is protecting vulnerable communities, such as the Lower Ninth Ward, from dangerous storm ...