Salt Lake County Flood Control crews removed piles of debris from City Creek gathered in recent weeks. The cool weather has kept floodwaters down in the area, but City Creek is rising.
SALT LAKE CITY — In Salt Lake City, the flooding risk from the last two creeks is diminishing, but the risk from another creek is rising.
"City Creek is already starting to rise. But, we're still at least two weeks away from a peak event," explained Laura Briefer, director of Salt Lake City Public Utilities. In anticipation, the city closed the canyon to traffic so that workers could fill trucks with sticks and logs cut out of the creek bed over the last few weeks. The Colorado River Basin Forecast Center projects a 50% probability that the water will rise close to the flood stage but not exceed it.However, Briefer said that rapid heating could change that forecast.
As for Parleys Creek, crews will soon reduce the flows out of Little Dell and Mountain Dell reservoirs, reducing the flow into Sugar House Park. The city expects it will be able to reopen Sugar House Park to cars sometime soon.
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