Tag: Grizzly Creek
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Emergency repair work will cause overnight closures on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sections of Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon will close overnight Thursday as crews continue emergency repairs caused by mudslides earlier this year. Eastbound lanes at Glenwood Springs, exit 116, will begin at 10 p.m. Thursday —…
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Glenwood Springs’ rivers are the lifeblood and harbinger | Colorado River Towns
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denizens of Glenwood Springs, the small Western Slope city that hugs the two rivers that meet about a mile west of its world-famous hot springs, are acutely attuned to the health of the Colorado and the Roaring Fork rivers. The city asked residents in late…
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I-70 through Glenwood Canyon reopens after flash flood threat
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Heavy rain and thunderstorms in western Colorado prompted closures in both directions on Interstate 70 between Dotsero and Glenwood Springs for more than four hours on Wednesday, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Additionally, eastbound I-70 was closed between Rifle and Canyon Creek and…
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Mudslides close I-70 for second weekend in a row
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Drivers that regularly travel on I-70 groaned again Saturday afternoon after several mudslides flowed onto the roadway and closed it down. The closure came just five days after the highway reopened to traffic on Monday, after last weekend’s round of mudslides from the Grizzly Creek…
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Last summer’s massive wildfires bring heavy metals to this year’s spring runoff
Liz Roberts is digging into snow-soaked dirt just above the banks of Grizzly Creek in western Colorado. With bare fingers she sifts through the dark soil, looking for life amid the ruins of last summer’s devastating Grizzly Creek fire. When she finds tiny dormant roots, she smiles and exposes more soil to show visitors that…
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Last summer’s massive wildfires bring heavy metals to this year’s spring runoff
Liz Roberts is digging into snow-soaked dirt just above the banks of Grizzly Creek in western Colorado. With bare fingers she sifts through the dark soil, looking for life amid the ruins of last summer’s devastating Grizzly Creek fire. When she finds tiny dormant roots, she smiles and exposes more soil to show visitors that…
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State fire agency receives Popular Science award
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Center of Excellence for Advance Technology Aerial Firefighting was awarded Popular Science’s 2020 Best of What’s New Award in the security category. CoE won the award after its work on the Team Awareness Kit, a geospatial mapping…
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Colorado Wildfires | Grizzly Creek fire ruled to be human-caused
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s a look at wildfires burning in Colorado: Pine Gulch fire Acres/Location: 139,007 acres/18 miles north of Grand Junction Containment: 81% Started: July 31, lightning Firefighters: 629 All evacuation orders and pre-evacuation orders were lifted…