Water News Roundup – June 15, 2010

KSL: Warm temperatures lead to flooding in Utah and Summit counties – An irrigation canal in Utah County got a lot more water than it could handle Monday. It’s now a swift-moving river, and residents in Lehi are bracing themselves for round two of the flooding.

Deseret News:

Aftermath of the S.L. oil spill: Did power line cause the break? – At ground zero of the weekend’s oil spill into Red Butte Creek, a welding crew is furiously at work, high-voltage power lines swinging overhead.

Water break causes geyser-like explosion in Fairpark – Salt Lake City public utilities officials said the cast-iron pipe, installed in 1929, gave way, and the pressure pushed the water to the top, creating “a nice plume of water,” public utilities maintenance supervisor Bret Shelley said.

Click here for Brian McInerney’s recent Flooding Update

Water News Roundup – May 18, 2010

Ogden Standard Examiner: Warmer Utah temps mean faster and more dangerous rivers – A spike in temperatures means Utah’s mountain-fed rivers and streams are quickly swelling — some tripling in volume in a matter of days — and raising the risk for those who recreate around them.

Brian McInerney’s April Water Supply Forecast (Waiting for May’s to be posted.)

New York Times: From Budding Poets, an Ode to Water –

Where do New York City’s budding poets find inspiration?

If you are Jeffrey Weiner, a sixth grader at Horace Mann School in the Bronx, you find it in one of the city’s sewage treatment plants handling more than 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater a day.

Treatment at wastewater plants must be quite quick,
To remove the pollutants so you don’t get sick.
In a mere seven hours, the job is complete,
Compared to weeks in nature to perform the same feat!

Water News Roundup – March 16, 2010

Salt Lake Tribune: Snow forecast for parts of Utah – This weekend’s snowstorm is expected to dump 1 to 2 feet of snow on central and eastern Utah through Sunday with smaller storms stretching across the state’s northern reaches.

“Most every area of the state has had something or will get something,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Conger said Saturday afternoon.

Provo Daily Herald: Snow levels low, reservoir levels good, temps all over – Remember all that rain back in June?  Be grateful for it. That rain is making up for the other half of the expected snowpack that northern Utah most likely will not see this winter.

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