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 ...

Flood Risk America (FRA), a national leader in flood protection products, announced the opening of a new in-house test ...

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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 ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Grand Rapids manufacturer is pitching emergency crews a faster, less labor-intensive alternative to sandbags as Michigan communities face increasingly frequent flooding. Cascade ...

The Netherlands built one of the world’s most ambitious flood defences after the devastating North Sea flood of 1953.

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 ...

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