Cities across the Wasatch Front are preparing for higher stream flows and potentially more flooding in the coming days, as high temperatures jump back into the 70s and 80s this weekend and into early next week.
calls for temperatures to jump 15 to 25 degrees above normal between Saturday and Wednesday, with highs reaching into the mid-to-upper 80s by the start of next week.
Storms over the past few weeks have kept temperatures low enough and even added additional snow, so much so that only 3% to 12% of the state's six northernmost snowpack basins have melted, as of Thursday afternoon. That means there is a lot of water left to melt into the creeks, streams and rivers that flow through the Wasatch Front, Cache and Tooele valleys, as well as the Uinta Basin.Utah isn't alone in this issue.
Laura Briefer, the department's director, said the city anticipates having the capacity to "accommodate the forecasted stream flows" at the moment, but both Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County water experts will "continue monitoring and cleaning the drainage system around the clock." The Central Utah Water Conservancy District also opened the floodgates of a facility by the Point of the Mountainto allow for 50 million gallons of water to flow into the Jordan River as a way to reduce flooding severity in the region, while also sending the water to the struggling Great Salt Lake.
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