Manitou Springs ‘well-protected and well-served’ by flood mitigation efforts, officials say after storm
More than
Damage to city property from Monday's storm will cost at least
"If those debris nets weren't in place (in
"Yeah, we had damage, but the overflow from that facility went across
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"I would say it's been very successful. I think the city's been well-protected and well-served by the facilities that have been constructed in such a short time."
By Thursday afternoon, crews had cleared 1,600 cubic yards of sediment and woody debris -- about 100 large dump truck loads -- from across the city, Cobau said. It's unclear how much of that was taken from debris nets or other flood-control structures.
The debris are sitting on a lot near the
The department's 31 staff members worked 16-hour days all week to clean up what she called "a little bit of mud in a lot of places."
The city's three flood-control gates installed near Cañon and Park avenues, however, were problematic.
One failed entirely. A car reportedly was parked on another, preventing it from opening. The third partially popped up.
"We have some work to do on those gates," Cobau said. "They're not well signed. We need to get it striped so people know not to park on them. ... We'll get on that very quickly."
Nearly
Homeless camps hit by storm as
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Crews also have removed debris from the
"It's not just built facilities -- it's mitigating the upper watershed," Cobau said. "All those efforts culminate so we can have a 500-year event go through
Some of the mitigation projects are still underway, Cobau said. But
The projects'
"The before and after is what everyone sees, but to get them here to there takes a lot of our team (doing) a lot of administrative work," Abeyta said.
In February, the
Too much silt collects in the flood channel that comes out of
"The concern is the city doesn't really have any protocols to clean those sections, and they don't have any way to monitor the effectiveness of that recharge section," said Wolverton, who was not speaking for the organization.
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Wolverton acknowledged that the mitigation projects have appeared to work, but said "the big concern is the maintenance factor."
The Pikes Peak Bulletin reported that other residents worry about the how effective the infrastructure would be in the face of a catastrophic storm.
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