About 150 community members attended KTOO’s expert panel discussion on Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood Tuesday night at Thunder Mountain Middle School. KTOO Climate and Environment Reporter ...
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 ...
Even though there was some leakage, we all know that there would have been hundreds of more homes devasted by the last glacier outburst, had CBJ not invested $3.5 million in installing 2.5 miles of ...
The HESCO barriers could only take so much. After holding back major flooding for months in Burlington, a temporary sand-filled barrier breached Saturday afternoon, causing some residents to flee and ...
A new lawsuit has been filed in Scott County District Court against the City of Davenport, according to Scott County Court documents. The city, former city administrator Corri Spiegel and HESCO ...
Mike Clarke, the former Davenport public works director who first brought HESCO barriers to the city as a way of fighting floods, said Wednesday he believes the barriers would have held if they had ...
After more than ninety days, the HESCO barriers in Downtown Davenport are finally coming down. And River Drive is slowly being opened to the public. The City of Davenport has started removing the ...
IOWA CITY - Removal of the temporary floodwall at the University of Iowa's Art Building West has begun, and work to deconstruct the miles of HESCO barriers erected as flood protection around campus is ...