All The Snow Has Officials Really Worried About Flooding
BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) - The rising temperatures have emergency crews bracing for potential flooding.
While Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, the snow is still deep. Right now statewide snowpack levels are more than 230 percent of normal for this date. That is the highest percentage ever recorded for this time of year.
Once the snow starts melting parts of the metro area could be in real danger from racing rivers and flooding. What right now is a steady trickle could soon become a raging flood season.
"Now that we've got the higher-than-average snowpack, that's going to lead to an elevated risk for the next couple of months," Mike Chard with the Boulder Office of Emergency Management said.
Chard says all across the state counties are gearing up for a big melt down.
"I think in the next week or two we're going to see the snow melt starting to occur," he said.
Boulder Creek is just one of many areas that county officials will be watching closely.
"Boulder Creek, St. Vrain, South Boulder Creek are the three areas that we are really worried about."
While the creeks and rivers may overflow, chances are Colorado's skies will dry out, leading to other problems.
"Of course in Colorado, now that we're getting out of the wet season, we'll be getting in to the dry hot season and that means now we go back in to a wild fire risk."
