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Floods in Colorado include the flood of 1844 which filled the South Platte valley from "bluff to bluff" [1] to the recent Denver floods of 1965 [2] and the 2013 Colorado floods. Colorado floods are of two types: floods covering a large area resulting from heavy regional rainfall or snowmelt and flash floods resulting from isolated cloudbursts ...
Colorado 2013 Flood Information Map, with locations of shelters, city and county government offices, and animal shelters; Crisiwiki: 2013 Colorado Floods: links to government, news, and aid agency sites; Denver Post: 2013 Colorado Floods; KMGH-TV in Denver: Flood Coverage; Colorado Flood Database (United States Geological Survey)
On July 31, 1976, during the celebration of Colorado's centennial, the Big Thompson Canyon was the site of a devastating flash flood that swept down the steep and narrow canyon, claiming the lives of 143 people, 5 of whom were never found, making it the deadliest disaster in Colorado's history. [5] This flood was triggered by a nearly ...
Officials from towns along Route 23 are calling on the state to elevate a portion of the highway after a section of it flooded and shut down twice in a matter of weeks, each time paralyzing ...
The flood is considered one of the deadliest floods in the history of Colorado, causing at least 144 deaths and 250 injuries, along with at least 5 missing. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] On August 1, over 800 people were evacuated from flood-impacted areas via helicopter , [ 24 ] and were taken to a high school in Loveland, Colorado that was established ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in the U.S. State of Colorado designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term ...
In a two-day period on July 27–28, 1997, heavy rainfall caused an overflow of the Spring Creek near Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. Stalled convection over the city produced heavy rainfall of up to 14.5 inches (370 mm) across western portions of Fort Collins, causing a flash flood which damaged areas along Spring Creek.
The watch, which is in effect from 5 p.m. through Wednesday morning, said flash flooding will be possible in parts of northeast and northern Missouri, including the Kansas City metro area, caused ...