Hidden Water: View the Suicide Basin Story Map

September 3, 2020
Hidden Water: The Suicide Basin Outburst Flood. Since 2011, the glacier-dammed lake in Suicide Basin above Juneau has unleashed floods into the valley below - sometimes in perfectly dry weather. Learn about the monitoring efforts and the history of this basin.

Each year since 2011, flooding from Suicide Basin, a glacier-dammed lake along Mendenhall Glacier, has impacted residents in the highly populated Mendenhall Valley in Juneau. AK CASC scientists at the University of Alaska Southeast have…