Living In Cottonwood Heights

Wow what a wonderful winter we have had from a snow perspective. The mountains were still getting snow after the resort’s scheduled time to close. It has definitely been wet, lawns are looking very green and all is good.

Then there is the law of cause and affect, or Newton’s third law “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”.

With all the snow in the mountains, if we get hot fast we can see some heavy runoff.

This may bring back scenes of the City Creek flood of 1983. This episode is obviously the extreme to what could happen.

The City of Cottonwood Heights has implemented the “Fill Your Own” sandbag program for this spring. The sand and bags will be just west Cottonwood Heights Elementary School by late April.

A quote from the City’s web site “It’s Better to have Sand Bags and No Runoff than Runoff and No Sand Bags”.