The Mendenhall River and Lake crested at around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday morning at close to 15.99 feet. According to the National Weather Service office in Juneau, where meteorologists stayed up through the night monitoring the flooding event, the water is receding and the water level in Suicide Basin, which disgorged on Sunday, had decreased by … Continue reading Juneau’s Mendenhall River crests, now levels starting to drop as daylight reveals widespread damage