A second levee failed just outside of Seattle in western Washington as rivers once again surge from more atmospheric river-fueled rain.<\/p>\n
Precautionary evacuations were ordered for around 1,300 people in Pacific, Washington, Tuesday morning due to the levee breach along the White River, King County emergency management told CNN. The river hit major flood stage, the most severe level, Monday morning, but has since fallen.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for part of the city, located nearly 30 miles south of Seattle. It said barriers called HESCOs were failing along the river and leaking water.<\/p>\n
Crews were \u201cen route with sand to mitigate the area,\u201d King County emergency management said.<\/p>\n
This follows a breach on the Desimone levee near the city of Tukwila along the Green River<\/a> early Monday afternoon, just east of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in western Washington.<\/p>\n The levee is meant to reduce flood risks to more than 30,000 people in Tukwila, Kent and Renton. A flash flood warning<\/a> was issued for more than 45,000 people in the affected area.<\/p>\n As of Monday evening, crews had contained the flood threat along the Green River and completed a temporary repair to the levee. The National Weather Service canceled the flash flood warning just after 5:00 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n Last week, crews installed an \u201cemergency flood fighting measure\u201d called a seepage blanket<\/a> to \u201chelp stabilize\u201d the important levee, according to the King County Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n The Green River near Tukwila has risen about 15 feet over the past week because of multiple rounds of torrential rainfall from an earlier atmospheric river. When the levee breached, the river\u2019s water level was just under 22 feet \u2013 higher than it\u2019s been in the past 60 years.<\/p>\n Days of heavy rain and historic flooding<\/a> from last week\u2019s atmospheric river has left soil soaked and rivers swollen across western Washington.<\/p>\n Now, some already-swollen rivers are rising again. All of Skagit County located within the 100-year floodplain<\/a> is under an evacuation warning on Tuesday with the Skagit River forecast to surge back to major flood stage in the coming days. The same area was ordered to evacuate<\/a> last week after the river hit record high levels.<\/p>\n