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Concerns arise in Carnation, TX over the inactive early warning siren for Tolt Dam, despite Seattle Public Utilities' ...
The city of Carnation is claiming the Tolt River Dam early warning sirens operated by the city of Seattle have been out of commission for more than a year.
CARNATION, Wash. — City of Carnation officials are once again calling on Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) to bring back outdoor warning sirens as part of the Tolt Dam failure preparedness plan. The ...
The false alarms have sent the city of 2,300 residents in a panic and has raised “concerns and doubts about the City of Seattle’s ability to operate the Tolt Dam,” the city of Carnation said ...
Following another false alarm, Carnation leaders are preparing to sue the city of Seattle and call on federal regulators to decommission the Tolt River Dam.
The Tolt Reservoir and Dam are located 16 miles upstream from Carnation along the South Fork Told River, and supply about 30 percent of the drinking water for 1.3 million people in the Seattle ...
Carnation residents came face to face with Seattle Public Utilities to air their grievances over panic-inducing false alarms they’ve experienced over the last few years. The alarms should signal ...
A state of emergency was declared in a small city in Washington state this week after a warning system for a dam protecting the city from being flooded by a reservoir falsely went off a fourth ...
By Paradise Afshar and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A state of emergency was declared in a small city in Washington state this week after a warning system for a dam protecting the city from being ...