DPS NEWS

Daily Flood Situation Report May 1

UPDATED AT 5:00 PM

Significant State Activity

Other Immediate Concerns

●New The most significant rises are currently forecast for the Lower Weber River at Plain City, the Little Bear at Paradise, and East Canyon Creek near Jeremy Ranch downstream to East Canyon Reservoir. See Hydrologic Outlook here [NWS Twitter]
● Active Current flood risk is spring runoff, increasing streamflows, and snowmelt. Some reported flood-related landslides are being monitored.

Current State (SERT) Actions

• Active The State EOC is now at Activation Level 2-Partial Activation.

Region 1

Cache County
● Active The Bureau of Reclamation, Utah Division of Water Resources, and Cache County are actively monitoring the Hyrum Dam for potential high-flow releases in the Little Bear River that may exceed the safe channel capacity. [Bureau of Reclamation, Interagency Correspondence]
● Active Due to the heavy snowpack, the county has also determined that it is both necessary and appropriate to extend the seasonal restrictions on county roads to motorized vehicles. [Cache County]
Morgan County
● Active The National Weather Service (NWS) has advised the County that East Canyon Creek will go above flood stage on Sunday and into the first part of next week. The County is preparing and monitoring. [LNO Correspondence]

Rich County
● New Garden City has activated a partial incident command to monitor flooding. [LNO Correspondence]

● Update Garden City experienced flooding actively crossing the highway into Bear Lake, though the road has not shut down. The flooding slowed due to the cooler temperatures overnight. [LNO Correspondence]

Weber County
● New Flooding in both directions SR-39 at MP 10 (2 miles east of Ogden). [UDOT Traffic]

Region 2

Salt Lake County

• New On April 30th, Springville City declared a local declaration of emergency. [LNO Correspondence]
• New Crews worked in Emigration Canyon through the night on debris management. Unclogging culverts is difficult due to the opening of the culvert often being submerged, therefore there is a lack of visibility for equipment. Crews removed 3 pallets from a clogged culvert at the mouth of the canyon. Things are under control, but the flows are high. [LNO Correspondence, SLCo]
• Active Sugar House Park is closed through May 1st for continued controlled releases. [SLCo Parks & Recreation]
• Update SR-190 to close today (5/1) from 11am-5pm due to avalanche hazard. [UDOT Canyons]
• Update SR-210 will be closed today (5/1) at 8 am due to avalanche hazards. No ETO for any public travel periods. [UDOT Canyons]

Utah County

• Update SR 89 closure at Highway 6. They have a hard closure in place on both sides of the closure.  We will have troopers in the area monitoring traffic. UDOT is planning on trying to fix the berms and pump out as much water as they can. It is undetermined how long the closure will be. UDOT is also concerned about Spanish fork creek which runs under I-15 at mile 254.  There are concerns that it may get to a point it will affect traffic in that area. We will keep monitoring it.

Region 3

● No significant updates to report at this time.

Region 4

Garfield County
● New Asay Creek continues to run high and the Sevier River is flooding the lowlands. [LNO Correspondence]

Region 5

● No significant updates to report at this time.

Region 6/7

Grand County

● Update Dolores River – Predicting a rise of greater than 16 feet, putting Dolores River over its bank at the University of Utah’s Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa. This is earlier than anticipated, before the spill release of the McPhee on May 4th. [LNO Correspondence]

● New Seeing higher flows on area rivers and streams. They are seeing some flooding in some roadways and near subdivisions that have been developed next to historic agricultural ditches or subdivisions that have not been properly developed for drainage (Specifically Spanish Valley). [LNO Correspondence]

Tribal Nations

● No significant updates to report at this time.

Impact and activity information is provided by Local Emergency Management partners, the State Emergency Response Team (SERT), and private and non-profit partners through various coordinating communication channels. This is a developing situation, and information may quickly become outdated. Additional situation reports may be made as verified information becomes available.