Many Utah communities are working proactively to minimize flooding that may happen when the snowmelt runoff really gets going in the next couple of months.
A Salt Lake County engineering crew joined Flood Control crews to pull debris from Little Cottonwood Creek in Cottonwood Heights Thursday.at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, hydrologists and emergency managers already know that the creek and many others will be filled to the banks with runoff starting in May, and lasting into June.
"Things that are going to cause problems later on, and trying to pull those snags and those trees and stuff up out of the creeks," Mecham said. Crews clearing the water and banks of Little Cottonwood Creek put debris in a Dumpster Thursday. They fill multiple Dumpsters each day during spring cleanup.
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