Tag: flood
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Cascade residents whose road washed out receive funds to rebuild, but are still on the hook for thousands
The road to Kathy and George Stultses’ Cascade home is a precipitous one. Guests are told to leave their cars at the bottom of the hill, where they walk up a steep path along a jagged canyon edge to reach the front door. A small crevasse cuts through what remains of the unnamed road, a…
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State request for proof of stormwater basins’ compliance could set tricky precedent
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Months after the state Legislature declared a network of El Paso County debris basins legal, state engineers have sent letters to El Paso County agencies requiring proof, a move that could set dangerous precedent for…
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State request for proof of stormwater basins’ compliance could set tricky precedent
Months after the state Legislature declared a network of El Paso County debris basins legal, state engineers have sent letters to El Paso County agencies requiring proof, a move that could set dangerous precedent for future flood mitigation projects, local officials say. Thanks to a new law, debris basins, considered crucial to protection from flooding,…
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Limited Colorado Springs storm damage shows success of flood mitigation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When a group of children and adults bulwarked themselves into a room in the Alpine Autism Center on Monday, they were taking shelter from about 8 inches of floodwater that poured into the facility. But…
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Limited Colorado Springs storm damage shows success of flood mitigation
When a group of children and adults bulwarked themselves into a room in the Alpine Autism Center on Monday, they were taking shelter from about 8 inches of floodwater that poured into the facility. But if the Autism Center had not been protected by a nearby detention pond designed to catch flood debris, the center…
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Analysis: Tracking the money spent on disaster recovery in the Pikes Peak region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County continues to receive millions of federal, state and private funds targeted at disaster recovery. More than $56 million came into the county to help fund recoveries from the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire,…
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Analysis: Tracking the money spent on disaster recovery in the Pikes Peak region
El Paso County continues to receive millions of federal, state and private funds targeted at disaster recovery. More than $56 million came into the county to help fund recoveries from the 2012 Waldo Canyon fire, the 2013 Black Forest fire and the September 2013 floods – all of which were declared federal disasters. The money…
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Colorado town evacuated after South Platte River levee breaches
MESSEX — Water from the swollen South Platte River in northeastern Colorado was slowly making its way toward a half-dozen homes in the tiny community of Messex on Tuesday, but it’s not expected to cause damage like that seen during historic floods in September 2013. The breach, reported Monday but anticipated since last month, prompted…
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El Paso County adds four Cascade homes to buyout plan
El Paso County has added four homes to a list of Ute Pass properties it hopes to buy, just weeks before it plans to finalize the buyouts of another four flood-endangered homes near Cascade. For nearly two years, the county has tried to secure federal and state funding to finance the purchase of four homes…
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