King County official warns of over a dozen weak spots in levee system amid recent breaches

Late into a nearly hour-long news conference, the head of King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks made a sobering statement about weak spots in the county’s levee system.

“(There are) more than a dozen, I would suspect, across the entire system, some more severe than others,” said John Taylor, fresh off two failures on the Green and White Rivers.

Early Tuesday morning, multiple homes were evacuated in Pacific after a breach of the levee, just hours after another incident on the Green River near Tukwila.

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