Crossposted from the DES Express

Emergency Management staff participated in a full-scale dam failure exercise for the South Fork Tolt River Dam on Oct. 3.

The City of Seattle owns and operates the Tolt Reservoir and Dams, located 16 miles upstream from the City of Carnation on the South Fork Tolt River. The reservoir stores 57,900 acre-feet of water to supply about 30 to 40 percent of the drinking water for 1.6 million people in the metropolitan Seattle area. In the unlikely event of a dam failure, water from the reservoir may inundate the City of Carnation. Read more.

Pictured: Left to right, Emergency Management employees Edan Edmondson, Andrew Matthews, Debbie Hunt, and Travis Bilyeau at a tour of the South Fork Tolt Dam last month.