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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 ...
The Colorado Storm and Flood of 2013: [permanent dead link ] Includes photos, maps, graphs, and links, created by the NSF-supported Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory at the University of Colorado; Video of flooding at Estes Park; Colorado 2013 Flood Information Map, with locations of shelters, city and county government offices, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bijou Creek is a 45.5-mile-long (73.2 km) [2] tributary of the South Platte River in Colorado. The creek flows northeast from elevated terrain in southeastern Adams County to a confluence with the South Platte near Fort Morgan. Bijou Creek is subject to flash floods from time to time. [3]
The wetter climate resulted in floods of up to 1,000,000 cubic feet per second (28,000 m 3 /s)–ten times larger than any flooding of the San Juan in recorded human history. [ 23 ] The San Juan River flows through highly erodible sedimentary rock–such as sandstone, siltstone, and shale–that make up rock formations such as the slide-prone ...
The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.
The March 2019 North American blizzard was a powerful Colorado Low that produced up to two feet of snow in the plains and Midwest. Rapid snowmelt following the storm caused historic flooding, and some areas received hurricane-force wind gusts.
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