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Steve Herbst, right, demonstrates the EM4 Stream Table to Brigham Young University senior John Hill in the Erying Science Center at BYU in Provo, Utah on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. The EM4 Stream Table models the processes and features in stream and delta environments. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, James Roh)

BYU geology students get hands-on experience with stream table

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 5:59pm

PROVO -- Students in the geology department at Brigham Young University spend hours reading textbooks and looking at photos in hopes of understanding the complexities of river systems, but now a new tool is giving students a hands-on learning experience.

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Utah National Guard members, including Staff Sgt. Kristi Rivera and Staff Sgt. Ryan Lewis, prepare to guide a Blackhawk helicopter in lowering sandbags to be placed at a break in a levee that separated the Weber River and a small canal in Plain City in June. Weber County is receiving $13 million in federal aid to remove debris and repair damage to riverbanks, levees and a diversion channel. (ANTHONY SOUFFLE/Standard-Examiner)

Weber snags $13M in federal flooding aid

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:19am

OGDEN -- Weber County is getting $13 million -- the largest amount of any county in Utah -- to repair flood damage from last year's record runoff.

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New Mexico puts the brakes on river otters

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 4:47pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- It was nearly 60 years ago on the Gila River. That's the last time anyone had documented a river otter in New Mexico. A government trapper found the dead animal in a beaver trap he had set.

Now, the chance of otters making any kind of a comeback in the upper reaches of the Gila is being put on hold indefinitely by New Mexico wildlife officials, a move that is frustrating conservationists and others who see the sleek mammals as the best hope for preserving endangered fish in the troubled river.

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Was 2011 flooding the worst Utah has had in 50 years?

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 7:22am

RIVERDALE -- According to a recent report, the 2011 spring flooding in Riverdale could be classified as the worst in almost 50 years.

For 27 days in 2011, Weber River flows were definitely above the 10-year "recurrence interval." Usually runoff flows peak in mid-May but in 2011, flows were still raging through mid-June.

"While communities throughout Utah experienced significant flooding, Riverdale City was hit particularly hard," according to a report issued by RiverRestoration.org.

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Rural areas in northeastern Utah latest to flood

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 12:08pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Officials say snowmelt from Utah's highest mountain range is causing problems for homeowners in the northeastern part of the state.

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Toddler pulled from raging Virgin River dies

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 11:41am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Authorities say a 2-year-old boy who was rescued after falling into the raging Virgin River near Zion National Park has died.

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Scientists: Idaho's Snake River dams must be breached

Eric Barker, The Lewiston Morning Tribune McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 11:01am

BOISE, Idaho -- The Western Division of the American Fisheries Society said Monday the lower Snake River dams must be breached if wild runs of salmon and steelhead are to be saved and restored to fishable numbers.

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Homes on University Ave. in Minot, N.D., sit in the floodwaters of the Souris river across the street from Minot State University Monday, June 27, 2011. As the river hit its record-shattering peak and began a slow retreat, residents looked ahead to an arduous rebuilding job while continuing to deal with short-term obstacles such as sharing the homes of friends and relatives, traffic tie-ups and an advisory to boil drinking water. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

As water ebbs in Minot, thoughts of recovery

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 27, 2011 - 9:48am

MINOT, N.D. -- Gus and Jane Krueger spent part of their 58th wedding anniversary in a McDonald's restaurant, sipping chocolate milkshakes as a government agent provided a crash course in applying for assistance to salvage their flood-ravaged house.

Like most of the thousands of homeowners in sections of Minot overrun by the Souris River, the Kruegers carried no flood insurance and acknowledged feeling lost as they pondered what to do next. Still, they were determined to rebuild and carry on.

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Scientists say removing Klamath River dams may not help salmon

Bettina Boxell, Los Angeles Times McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, June 27, 2011 - 9:39am

A $1.4 billion project to remove four hydroelectric dams and restore habitat to return Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of the Klamath River amounts to an experiment with no guarantee of success, an independent science review has concluded.

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Weather officials issue flood watches in Utah

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 3:40pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Communities across Utah are preparing for floods as temperatures this week heat up into the 90s and mountain snowpack starts a rapid melt, but officials say previous fears of major damage will likely be avoided.

The National Weather Service has issued flood watches for most of central and northern Utah along stretches of Little Cottonwood Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, and the Weber, Provo, Duchesne and Bear rivers. Several areas are already above flood stage.

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Dam operators on their toes as West snowpack melts

Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 11:41am

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- On a June day, Frank Gehrke and Vince White strapped on their cross-country skis and glided across the wintry landscape of Dana Meadows in Yosemite National Park. The surrounding peaks were wrapped in snow, the breeze crisp enough for a hat and gloves.

The men screwed together four sections of a hollow aluminum tube White had carried on his backpack. With a vigorous twisting of a handle attached to the cylinder, he drove it into the layers of snow. It didn't hit dirt for another 7 feet.

After pulling up the snow-filled tube, White weighed it to gauge the water content. The Dana Meadows snowpack had enough water to form a 3-foot-deep lake.

From the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades to the northern Rockies, much of the West's high country remains buried under a thick snowpack that is filling reservoirs and engaging dam operators in a nerve-racking balancing act as they watch for jumps in temperature that could turn all those scenic piles of white into raging floodwaters.

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Erin Evans with the U.S. Geological Survey measures water flowing over Highway 87 near Roundup, Mont., Wednesday June 8, 2011. The Musselshell River swamped portions of the small agricultural town for the second time in two weeks Wednesday as heavy rains continued to cause widespread flooding in Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Supplies ferried to hundreds stranded by Mont. floods

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, June 10, 2011 - 2:11pm

BILLINGS, Mont. — Emergency workers ferried supplies to more than 300 people cut off Friday by flooding that has overwhelmed Montana towns and caused an estimated $8.6 million in damages to date.

Heavy rain and the runoff from record mountain snowpacks have caused rivers over much of the West to spill from their banks. Montana has been hit particularly hard over the past few weeks, with hundreds of homes inundated and scores of roadways swamped.

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The Weber River flows over 5500 W. 900 N., near Plain City on Thursday, June 9, 2011. Crews had to cut the road to control the water flow westward. NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner

Levee breach in Plain City area, threatening nearby homes

Jessica Miller

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 3:58pm

The area where Weber County emergency officials had placed six diesel-engine pumps to try to alleviate pressure in the swollen Weber river has given way, and officials are scrambling to figure out what comes next.

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Boy, 8, drowns in American Fork River

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 10:47am

AMERICAN FORK — An 8-year-old boy is dead and his mother was treated for hypothermia after the two fell into the swift and cold American Fork River in Utah and the child was swept out of rescuers’ reach, authorities said.

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Three go to hospital after river rescue of Layton couple, grandson in Price

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, June 3, 2011 - 11:26pm

PRICE -- Crews rescued a Layton couple and their grandson from the Price River early Friday morning.

A pickup truck towing a trailer with ATVs driven by John Dunkley, 65, was going east on U.S. Route 6 about 12:10 a.m. when Dunkley apparently fell asleep and crossed over the oncoming lane and plunged into the river, Utah Highway Patrol troopers said.

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