Engineers from the City and Borough of Juneau are taking a close look at damage the temporary levee sustained during the record-breaking glacial outburst flood on the Mendenhall River last week.

Some sections of the levee leaked, flooding a couple dozen homes. But it protected hundreds of others.

Nick Druyvestein, an engineering associate at the city, has spent the week inspecting each HESCO block that makes up the levee built along 2.5 miles of the river.

“I’m looking for tears in the fabric, any damage to the wire mesh, popped welds — really just looking to see if they’re they’re still standing up straight and if there is any damage,” he said.

Some parts of the levee seeped, sank into the soil or lost sand through the bottom.

A tree punched a hole through one section nea

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