19 Oct 2017Benedikt Jóhannesson, fjármálaráðherra afhenti í dag sveitarstjórn Skútustaðahrepps bréf fjármála- og efnahagsráðherra og umhverfis- og auðlindaráðherra um umbætur í fráveitumálum sveitarfélagsins. Segir þar að starfsstjórn þyki ekki rétt að fara í viðræður við hreppinn fyrr en að loknum kosningum.
18 Nov 2015Flood waters inundated 60 km2 of farmland and inhabited areas in South Iceland early last month. There are now concerns that the sediment left behind could cause sand storms and dust pollution.
15 Oct 2015The National Commissioner of Icelandic Police and the South Iceland police force have today, in consultation with scientists, decided to lift the state of alert in place since 30 September.
6 Oct 2015Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, is today visiting the area hit by the extensive glacier flood of the Skaftá river in South Iceland last week.
5 Oct 2015Traffic is still closed over a bridge in South Iceland after flood water from the Skaftá glacier river flood ripped away a large section of river bank under the eastern end of the bridge.
2 Oct 2015As can be seen from this video, the water has become very grey. The river has already broken through one protective wall and cut off the road into Skaftárdalur valley.
1 Oct 2015The Iceland Met Office predicts that the river could flood over the national ring road (Route 1) where the river flows under the road to Eldhraun.
1 Oct 2015You can follow the dramatic changes occurring in Skaftá river due to the glacier river flood currently under way on the Icelandic Met Office website.
1 Oct 2015The flood water contains potentially harmful hydrogen dioxide and crevasses may quickly appear around the eastern cauldron, from which the water is flowing.
30 Sep 2015The ice cap covering the eastern cauldron of Skaftá has sunk by over 10 m in less than three days, as water floods out of the cauldron into the Skaftá river.
30 Sep 2015The glacial river floods known as Skaftárhlaup began in 1955 although testimonies of older occurrences exist. From 1955 there have been fifty floods in the Skaftá river, amounting to almost one per year.
