Rip-roaring rains poured through the Denver metro on Aug. 15, pushing Cherry Creek feet above its normal height and covering the nearby trail in Denver.
The visceral flooding may have alarmed some residents, but a selection of the city’s parks and the Cherry Creek Trail are supposed to flood, according to David Skuodas, education and outreach director for the Mile High Flood District, an organization that assists Denver-area governments in flood assessments.
A walled section of the Cherry Creek Trail that runs parallel to Spear Boulevard in central Denver is “primarily there for conveying floods, but, thankfully, it doesn’t rain so hard that the ‘floods’ happen often,” Skuodas tells Westword…