From Deseret News archives:
Utah County aim: Avert floods
Plan is to make preparations that will prevent troubles caused by runoff
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In an effort to make sure Utah Valley is ready if and when heavy rainfall or snow-melt events occur, the Utah County Commission, with support of elected city officials, is pursuing a countywide flood-control program, including a potential countywide tax increase to defray the cost of the work that needs to be done.
County officials have identified about a dozen places that need work, such as clearing debris from basins, removing trees, replacing culverts and restoring channels. There are also 15 others that have yet to be looked at with a critical eye.
Some of those channels and basins haven't been serviced in 20 years, Naylor said.
"We need to get them all in shipshape and bring ourselves into a situation where if we have a flood we can manage it," he said, "because it will come."
Brian McInerney, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, encourages such flood preparations but said he doesn't subscribe to the flood-every-30-years theory.
"Weather is definitely cyclical and there are patterns," McInerney said, "but there are a lot of variables."
Chief among those, he said, is the spring climate. The floods of 1952 and '83 both featured the dangerous combination of above-normal snowpack and abnormally warm weather.
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