![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Instead of the typical avalanches that we see during the winter, these are wet slides," he said. "It's still out in the future, and so I'm more worried about those that in northern Utah, that there's still a lot of snow.”įlood water isn’t the only thing that could close roads this weekend the Utah Department of Transportation is already preparing for wet snow avalanches to slide onto our mountain roads, according to UDOT spokesman John Gleason. "Some of those larger watersheds, larger rivers, they're not going to peak yet this next coming week," said Nelson. There are currently flood watches in the Wasatch Back, Cache Valley and the Northern Wasatch Front. "It does store that floodwater and then release it more slowly.” “It's storage," said Jim Nelson, a professor of civil and construction engineering at BYU and the developer of the Watershed Modeling System. SALT LAKE CITY - The pond in Sugar House Park has been flooding over for days - exactly as it should be. ![]()
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