Click on the thumbnail graphic to the right for the 3 Day Rainfall map for the Denver Metro area from the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District. The station just west of Gulch Manor shows 2.32″ since Friday.
From The Greeley Tribune:
Weld County Road 53 north of Kersey was closed early Sunday morning because of flooding, said Weld County Undersheriff Margie Martinez. It’s not known exactly when the road will be safe to open. Northern sections of 71st, 83rd and 95th avenues in Greeley also remain closed, said Jerry Pickett, streets superintendent for the city of Greeley. He said these should be open sometime today. Unless the rain picks up again, Pickett said water should start receding. The cooler weather has slowed runoff from the mountains, actually helping to lower some rivers, Pickett said.
Here’s a report from the Fort Collins Coloradoan:
More than 2 inches of rain fell in the three days of precipitation that started Friday, according to rain gauges throughout the city. Through 12:41 p.m. Sunday, downtown LaPorte reported 2.2 inches of rain. Gauges at City Park and Avery Park detention pond recorded more than 2 inches as well with the rest of Fort Collins, receiving anywhere between 1.4 and 1.89 inches of rain. Weld County roads 13 and 17 in Windsor were closed to traffic in the vicinity of the Poudre River, and Larimer County Road 5 near roads 36 and 38 near Timnath were closed early Sunday. A combination of high runoff flows and local thunderstorms forced the Poudre River out of its banks in those and other low-lying areas. The only north-south arterial that remains open south out of Windsor is Colorado Highway 257, and the water level is rising in that area, too. Colorado Highway 392, an east-west arterial, remains open above the Poudre River, although the water level there is very high…
Windsor Public Works Director Terry Walker said his main focus now is Colo. 257 and the railroad trestle that runs parallel to the highway. “There is debris catching under the trestle,” Walker said. “We’ve contacted the railroad, and they are aware of it. It’s a big concern.”
From The Denver Post (Joey Bunch):
Many of the state’s monitored rivers are flowing at two to three times their normal rate for this time of year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Some that had posed concern last week, including the Roaring Fork River at Glenwood Springs and the Arkansas River west of Pueblo, had returned to near normal Sunday. Clear Creek at Golden, the site of warnings about the dangerous currents Tuesday and Saturday when the flow reached 1,400 cubic feet per second, was flowing at 966 cfs Sunday, compared with the 35-year average of 763 cfs. Cherry Creek in Denver, however, was flowing at 108 cfs Sunday, compared with its 55-year mean for the date of 37 cfs, according to the USGS’s gauges…
Flooding also was reported Sunday along the South Platte River near Kersey as the river exceeded its 10-foot flood stage, according to the National Weather Service.
From the Colorado Daily (Amy Bounds):
Boulder County sheriff’s Sgt. Lori Cox said the threat of flooding receded Sunday, though the risk for South St. Vrain and Boulder creeks remained moderate to high.
Boulder Creek’s water flow dropped about 200 cubic feet per second — to about 400 cubic feet per second — on Sunday, down from about 600 cubic feet per second on Friday. The average for Boulder Creek is between 100 to 300 cubic feet per second.
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