{"id":15500,"date":"2011-03-30T20:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/king-county-flood-warning-center-issues-phase-ii-alert-for-green-river\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:20:33","slug":"king-county-flood-warning-center-issues-phase-ii-alert-for-green-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-flood-warning-center-issues-phase-ii-alert-for-green-river\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Flood Warning Center issues Phase II alert for Green River"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King County Flood Warning Center, which has been monitoring rain-swollen rivers since early Wednesday morning, has issued a Phase II flood alert level for the Green River. Only minor flooding is expected as a result of controlled increased flows on the Green River, and only in the primarily rural areas without river levees upstream of Auburn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Flows on the Green River are expected to reach or exceed 7,000 cubic feet per second at the Auburn gage sometime early Thursday morning, March 31, as a result of the planned releases from Howard Hanson Dam, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u2019 flood-control dam in the upper Green River watershed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers remain at Phase III flood alert levels, with some flooding noted in low-lying areas. Flood patrol crews have been in the field monitoring conditions since mid-afternoon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

King County staff will continue to monitor stream gages and weather reports, and will provide updated information on river conditions as necessary. Real-time river level information is available online at http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/flood.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Updated information on flooding will also be posted on the King County website at www.kingcounty.gov<\/a>, or via RPIN, the area’s regional website at http:\/\/www.rpin.org. A recorded flood-information hotline is also updated each hour for citizens wanting information in flood areas. The number is 206-296-8200 or 1-800-945-9263.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Citizens who need help interpreting flood information should call 206-296-4535 or 1-800-768-7932. Problems on county maintained roads can be reported by calling 206-296-8100 or 1-800-KC-ROADS.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

An automated flood alert system is now available and provides real-time warning of potential high water on more than a half-dozen rivers. King County residents and business owners can sign up to receive King County Flood Alerts by visiting www.kingcounty.gov\/flood, or by calling 206-263-3400 during regular business hours to register by phone. Messages of potential high flows on any of King County\u2019s major river systems can be sent by phone, text or email.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The King County Flood Warning Center, which has been monitoring rain-swollen rivers since early Wednesday morning, has issued a Phase II flood alert level for the Green River. Only minor flooding is expected as a result of controlled increased flows on the Green River, and only in the primarily rural areas without river levees upstream of Auburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15500"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}