After 88 days, Salt Lake County’s state of emergency, which was declared because of flooding caused by the high level of spring runoff from record-breaking snowpack levels, has come to an end.
— or, adjusted for inflation, some $1.87 billion in today’s dollars.
Salt Lake County was the first county in Utah to officially declare a flood emergency. That, according to a news release, allowed the county to move equipment fast, hire extra crews to clear debris, buy sand and sandbags, and apply for state and federal reimbursements.over the last three months — which were then stacked to keep high waters, caused by the melting of the record snowpack, from overflowing into homes and businesses.
For example, he said, the county’s 11 detention basins will have to be dredged — to remove sediment, silt, debris and other unwanted materials — to increase storage capacity and improve their ability to handle stormwater runoff.
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