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<br />Canon City Daily Record: July 6. 2006 -Page 1a
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<br />:Heavy rain ""ashes
<br />lout part of Colo. 115
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<br />'Monsoon' system
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<br />Fremont County
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<br />pebble Bell
<br />The Daily Record
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<br />PENROSE - Almost five inch-
<br />es of raintn three hours Wednes-
<br />day evening flooded much of east-
<br />ern Fremont County and washed
<br />away a 30-foot section of Colo. 115
<br />between here and Florence, south
<br />of U.S. 50.
<br />"It was just a huge amount of
<br />~ater, and it started eroding the
<br />road away,' Chuck Decker, Col-
<br />orado De-
<br />partment
<br />Of Trans-
<br />portation
<br />Wghway
<br />supervisor,
<br />said this
<br />morning.
<br />Decker
<br />said the ce-
<br />ment box
<br />culvert under the" highway was
<br />about 5 feet by 5 feet, too small to
<br />handle the incoming flood. The
<br />~ighway is closed and traffic is
<br />being detoured around U.8. 50 to
<br />Colo.67.
<br />In addition to Colo. 115 washing
<br />Clway, flooding was reported
<br />throughout much of Penrose,
<br />Ilorth of town, and for miles along
<br />U.8,50.
<br />Bill Fortune, meteorologist ,in
<br />~harge at the National Weather
<br />&lrvice in Pueblo, said this morn-
<br />ing the rain started aroJ.ll1d 6p.m.
<br />Wednesday and continued well
<br />past midnight, with the heaviest
<br />and most damaging rainfall be-
<br />tween 7 and 10 p.m.
<br />"We had heavy rain across
<br />much of eastern Fremont Coun-
<br />ty. "Fortune said. "In Canon City,
<br />we got a report of 2 inches, and as
<br />you move east, Penrose reported
<br />4~82 ,inches just between 7 and 10."
<br />, Fortune said the weather sys-
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<br />. " , Debbie Be/liolJ/lY Record
<br />Heavy rains Wednesday washed away a~foot $tretc~ of' Colo. 115 when Penrose ~ceived
<br />almost 5 inches of rain. The Colorado Department of Transportation is still assessing the
<br />damage, which is located about two miles south of U.S. 50.
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<br />"'Ve<l.iS!ikj! ma.kiJlg , thiSd~cision. asrnany
<br />~ople from throughbut'thiS pareci't. the state
<br />liave!lla!ie.planstoatten!ithis,~citiri~ event,
<br />but we, ~o Qonoto/ant to 1>ut anr'ofthe per-
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<br />JUI;ed'" ,s~~. DagYJleCp~~:t , ",gel!
<br />~rryCo~m-an.. "We have ~. .' hat,\ye
<br />can gettfie'Bandan~;cnorusto , ",~a~on'
<br />City on their next tour through, the area .and
<br />Will keep evei'yoneiiUoim&1;aS:'to"tbeirsched~
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<br />Debbie Bell/Dairy Record
<br />Heavy flooding severely damaged Colo. 115
<br />south'tlf U.S. 50 Wednesday evening. Waters
<br />rushed from the north along this culvert and
<br />washed away a section of the road. The road
<br />is closed, and vehicles are being detoured
<br />around the damage,
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