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November 6, 2009

Valley flood risk drops from ‘really bad' to ‘bad'

  • The corps says the odds of widespread flooding in the Green River Valley have improved to 1-in-32.
    • By GEORGE TIBBITS
    Associated Press Writer

    Hurried repairs at a badly weakened flood-control reservoir have greatly reduced but far from eliminated the risk of flooding this winter in the Green River Valley near Seattle, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday.

    The region has been preparing for flooding ever since a torrential storm in January weakened an abutment to an important upstream dam that holds back the Green River. Residents and businesses have been piling up sandbags and the corps has been working around the clock on repairs to shore up the abutment. Most of the repairs were completed within the past week.


     
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