Evacuation orders lifted after Green River levee breach brought under control

The City of Tukwila is encouraging people to be ready to leave on short notice due to possible flash flooding.

Crews use sandbags to shore up levee breach near Seattle after failure prompts flood warning

The evacuation order was sent to about 1,100 homes and businesses east of the Green River in parts of Kent, Renton and Tukwila.

Flash flood warning, evacuation notice in Seattle suburbs after levee breach

The National Weather Service issued the flash flood warning on Monday due to a levee breach in Tukwila, a suburb of Seattle located in King County. An evacuation notice is in effect for parts of King County.
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'Living' levee in Palo Alto Baylands aims to solve multiple problems with one-of-a-kind solution

A new horizontal living levee will protect from sea-level rise in an environmentally friendly way, while also maintaining habitats naturally using wastewater. Here's how:

Volunteers plant Bay Area’s first ‘living levee’ using treated wastewater

Volunteers were out bright and early Wednesday morning along the Harbor Marsh coastline in the Palo Alto Baylands, joining an effort to build a nature-based buffer designed to absorb storm surges and curb flooding amid climate change and sea-level rise that threaten shoreline communities.
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