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 ...

Historically, flooding is one of the costliest natural disasters in the United States on an annual basis. Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) attempt to address area-wide flood risks retroactively and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phil DeLaine and Bob MacKnight have designed an innovative flood protection solution far superior to the most commonly used permanent structures Phil’s pathway to this invention started with a degree ...

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, Flood Risk America (FRA) prevented elevator flooding in several major buildings with temporary flood barriers. FRA was ...

Under blue skies and sunshine, heavy metal flood barriers between about 4 and 6 feet tall were set up across Boston on Friday. Boston’s flood preparedness demonstration, which doubled as a training ...

Work to complete an estimated $300M ocean floodgate program in Port Monmouth, N.J., (above) is moving toward completion, but status is unclear of a Corps of Engineers proposed flood barrier in nearby ...