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According to the National Weather Service, the Skilak Glacier dam lake appears to be releasing. No flooding is expected at this time.Water levels on the upper Kenai River are falling quickly...
...was an unusual event, it doesn?t mean that it can?t happen again. Last year?s event was caused by the Skilak Glacier Dam Lake that released, but we also have the Snow River Glacier Dam Lake that is presently pretty full and the...
...ice jam that happened when the Skilak Glacier-dammed lake released was caused...the next couple of years. The Skilak Glacier-dammed lake follows a similar...Kenai River Center on Snow and Skilak glacier-dammed lakes, he said the rise...
...floods are something he's watched most of his life. Other than last year's flooding event that occurred when Skilak glacier-dammed lake drained, Hanes said the last significant flood happened in the early 1990s. He said he knew people...
...Thursday as water draining from Skilak Glacier Dammed Lake made its way into...Kenai River. The lake is behind Skilak Glacier at the head of Skilak Lake, and usually...Friday night, which suggests the Skilak Glacier Dammed Lake is done...
...platforms, uprooted trees and a buoy. A lake behind Skilak Glacier began to drain Jan. 16. The estimated 4 feet of excess...said. The National Weather Service reports that the Skilak Glacier Dammed Lake has emptied, and water levels in...
...by periodic flooding since Thursday. A lake behind Skilak Glacier began to drain Jan. 16. The estimated 4 feet of...river. The National Weather Service reports that the Skilak Glacier Dammed Lake has emptied, and water levels in the...
...ice jam. When the lake behind Skilak Glacier drained, dislodging the ice that...forecast center monitors Snow and Skilak Glacier lakes via aircraft, but added...a larger volume of water than Skilak Glacier lake, it's further up in the...
...to see what can happen when these structures are left in the water or within flood levels. Late last winter, the Skilak Glacier-dammed lake breached, releasing a four-foot high surge of water into the river. The surge dislodged river ice...
...on the Kenai Peninsula needed to be prepared. We started 2007 off with flooding on the Kenai River caused when the Skilak Glacier-dammed lake released. The rise in water levels led to ice jamming from Sterling to Soldotna. Massive chunks of...