The San Juan County County Commission declared a state of emergency for the county during Tuesday’s meeting.
This allows the county to request state aid to mitigate the effects of nearly two weeks of flooding that devastated homes and businesses.
“After several days of heavy rain on ground already saturated from previous storms, we began to have serious flooding on the San Juan River,” Emergency Manager Mike Mestas said “Then, approximately one week later, we flooded on the Animas and La Plata Rivers.”…