FLOOD02603

• County: Garfield
• Community: Glenwood Springs
• Stream Name: Roaring Fork River
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Title: Debris Flow Costs & Inventory of City of Glenwood Springs Area July 10,1928 Flood Debris Flow
• Date: 5/1/1986
• Prepared For: Glenwood Springs
• Prepared By: Mount Sopris SCS
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Floodplain Report/Masterplan

V,I, 66 - No, 144

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Glenwood' "Post

Mondoy, July 25, 1977

Glenwood Springs. Colorado

8 Pages

15 Cents

Cloudburst batters South Glenwood

Ity Bob 511b<!m.,~1
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Ne.IlrIY',ladlolrain rell in hlIlI.lIn hour
Sunday ~ ROOing I will of mud
a~dir1l'" IIlillsideslnd into~ IIfI
Blah and 8eMett Sltftls, and dumping
: SI'1Iljd. auy_ debrb ia other aecliORli 01
; town. . ~ '.. . . .
; The I'1IIn.bepl It atQlt S p.m. and by
, 5:30 mud 'Pel rte:b on the steep hills h.ld
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Jnjuriel wye n!pOfted u . result 0( the
'DI~da\Ddnoodins. .

~. fbrdest \it ~ homes (rom 21S1 Sinel
23rd Stnjet.. Blake and BenMtI ""More
mud f1ai.ed <!l...'n I ravine dir=t.ly into

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One basement wn filled with nearl)'
four - feel of mud. Another had a tree
pus.hedthrough it. M051 of the yards inthf
ar9werewuhedout.
.'I'venever seen anything like it in my
Wetime," uid Harvf')' Graves of 2117 Ben.
Mtt. uA I~Hoot high Will 0( mud rolled
down the mountain and around my neigh-
bof"s house and sLarted coming. for mine. ,-
At that time GtJivf$ said be Io8ded his
r.mily In I jeep.nd lot out oilhE' 'rea.
Tht:y~elurnt'd1500r1Umelatertos~y
the damage.
Gl1Ives' bouH _s not u' hard hit as
IOmeof !heothers. "The main part lalthr
slide) wenl about SO fH1 from the house,"
he ....id. "J hat my yard andone room."
The mud "'ide continued wet across

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Grand Avenue, losing mochof il.5 inl~nsit). and mudslid~ fit $:2 million. He said lh('
by the lime it reached the main GI~nwood dly alOlle \I.-ovId have about kO,OOO in
Springs UlO.rougMare. da~ge 10 plugged se.....age lines and mud.
Workmen at the federal building uncler blanketfli str~lS.
constrvcUon near 21th and Grand (ound' en.....s began working Iasl nighl on lhe
approximately four inches 01. mud spread dean.up and are continuing 10 do so loday.
evenly through evfl'Y room of the build in.. Wnl ....id he expeca, with the aid of
destroying much at the recenlly placed .Privale conlractors, to, hav~ most of the
drywall. meu cleaned up by lale today. West
Elsewhen:: in the dty, mud knocked a lauded the privale contraclon lor their
'lru<'k over an embankment on Midland .Iluiclt respOnse to his call for assislance.
Avenue and clogged some slNea andy.r- 'MII5I wereherewithinanhour, he said
ds in lhal area. Mud and gravel also flawed While cit)" c~"" and individuals worked
off the bins 01\ the r<<th side 01 the .through the night in the a(Jtrmath 01 the
Colorado Rivei'. but damage there ~p- .(loocllng. "Burg~r Chri Reslauranl
pearedlobeminlmal. '~pnlvided free ha.mburaen and drink$ 10
City Manager' John West this moruiDg 'tbo6oe Involvfli. .
~timaled. the, damage from the ~oodi~ trn~g the heaY)' rai"': ~re ,!"as ~ome

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confusion about the posSible Med lor
evacuation of ptrsons in lhe low areal
along lhe Roaring Fork River.
Ont'roidioreporlsaidsuchanorderhad
bH-n iMued COIlnly Communicalions
Director AI Mawrd said his Mpartmenl
is5ueod no call for evacuation, bul W85 sim.
ply....'arninipe-opleto.....atchthenverlevei
andbere.ildyto~va('ualtifllt"l'nsary.
Tht~taIRiver.....asrepor1edl)"filltd
loilibanbSundayandcatNdPllrlolthe
anxielyaboulltK'RoaringFortf1ooding
The heavy ralns.~ (:aused a tern.
porary clOlSure of McClure pa.s.s Sunday
(ollo.....ing a mudslide, .nd damage 10
.KVeral buildincs al Mid-c~IiMflI Coal
and Coke Co, .1 thtirDulchCreek mines.
.;Mid-fonlinenl viC"e.presidtnt Robert
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Delant')' said lht firm's balhhOlJ~r1
district oHi('e""e~ "uvtrt'I}' tfwma'
bya "literal wall or..'aler carry;ng
boulden,"
l..D51 in the ~Iugt, Delant'y said,.
numerous company rl"CQI'ds. Tht..,
waler alsowashtd out 1M road bet
theminesand RtdslOntinuveral pla;
Mid-Conlinent canc-eUtd its grav~'
shift, but workers were back on the jo'
momini lor lhe day shirl, Coal Sh~'
reaching ~rbondaie ,by liGOn t
Delaneysaid. ,". '.' .
Damalles to Mid-CoolinelJt fa
~ouJd be "many, mllny lh~nddol
velane-y added. No finn figure
beeneslabJi$hed.. .. _'_.'.::"_~

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-, jun II'\If' 1hil ltuff ood"1ll __ ttw n....1 Ind ; hopJ*d
in ~y I",ck flMt 101 h OUI of lhere," &lid Gilnwood P.,.I
""blllhlt Tom CoIlinlon wh011 hom. on Sin..." An. WII
on.. of Ih. hMcfnl hit by ylll.rcbV" I,)c;k IfId mild "ide,

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