CARNATION, Wash. — The city of Carnation experienced two more false dam breach alarms Wednesday, marking the eighth time a false evacuation alarm has sounded in four years. The Tolt Dam, which ...

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 City of Carnation spoke out about the false Tolt Dam evacuation alarms at Wednesday’s Seattle City Council meeting. Over the past few years, Carnation has had a series of false alarms that ...

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 ...

After enduring multiple false alarms warning of a breach at the Tolt River Dam, Carnation residents say they are facing a new problem with the dam’s newly installed alert system — and they ...

The conference came 24 hours after the historically faulty system set off the eighth false Tolt Dam failure alarm since 2020 at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 27.

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 ...

The City of Carnation said it plans to take legal action against the City of Seattle after Carnation heard its eighth false alarm about a possible dam break in the past several years.

Then, on July 28, 2020 — a Tuesday — the alarm sounded for 38 minutes. Hughes was on her porch. “It was distinctively saying, ‘The Tolt Dam has failed,’ which was chilling,” she said.

Carnation is 16 miles downstream from the Tolt Dam, which is owned and operated by Seattle Public Utilities. In the unlikely event of a breech, the city could be totally flooded in about an hour.

The city of Carnation is building a flood excavation site on a hill near town. It recently bought the property to the left of the clear-cut for the facility. Imagine being chased from your home by ...

The alarm system in Carnation, about 30 miles east of Seattle near the confluence of the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers, is intended to alert residents to evacuate if the Tolt Dam fails.