The Juneau Assembly has approved $2 million in funding to construct a semi-permanent levee along Mendenhall River in order to prepare for future glacial outburst floods. But at a meeting Monday night, ...
Assembly member Wade Bryson asked this as 466 Juneau homeowners along a two-mile stretch of the Mendenhall River wrestle with control over their properties as temporary HESCO barriers are installed ...
Locals protesting $8K payment for temporary flood barriers told rejection may endanger permanent fix
Feds providing barriers free, but more help in danger if locals won’t pay to install them, city manager says. Call it a situation of dammed if you do, damned if you don’t. Residents unhappy about a ...
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 ...
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