The water and sediment output from Vitus Lake, in Front of Bering Glacier, was monitored starting in July 1994, Instrumentation was placed in the lake outlet to record stage, turbidity, conductivity and temperature and velocity of flow of river water. Two outburst floods punctuated the termination of the 1993–94 Bering Glacier surge in August 1994. The better-documented flood lasted about 10 d, during which the flood discharge averaged 1100 m3 s−1, in excess of normal discharge (1550 m3 s−1) during this part of the ablation season, and about 9.5 × 108 m3 of water drained from Bering Glacier. The excess water volume discharged during this flood corresponds to a 0.4 m thick layer of water extending over the 2500 km2 of Bering Glacier that was surging in early summer. The suspended-sediment flux from Vitus Lake during the summer of 1994 was two orders of magnitude less than rates of sediment production by other fast-moving glaciers in southern Alaska. This implies that most of the sediment produced is being stored in Vitus Lake, under the glacier, or in both locations.