![]() ![]() “We certainly know that climate change is causing more natural disasters, more fires, bigger fires and more floods and bigger floods. “This is something we’re definitely going to feel the impacts of for the next several years,” Goonan said.Īs the Yellowstone rebuild efforts get underway, rangers will have to consider the reality of the park’s altered landscape as well as potential future natural disasters. Kelly Goonan, an associate professor at Southern Utah University and an expert in national parks and recreation management, said rebuilding will be a long process. The city also stopped watering parks and boulevards, and its fire department was filling its trucks with water from the Yellowstone River. “None of us planned a 500-year flood event on the Yellowstone when we designed these facilities,” said Debi Meling, the city’s public works director.īillings had a just a 24- to 36-hour supply of water and officials asked its 110,000 residents to conserve while expressing optimism that the river would drop quickly enough for the plant to resume operations before the supply ran out. because it can’t operate effectively with water levels that high. ![]() The city gets its water from the river and was forced to shut down its treatment plant at about 9:30 a.m. Heavy weekend rains and melting mountain snow had the Yellowstone River flowing at a historically high level of 16 feet (4.9 meters) as it raced past Billings. (AP) - Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds of bridges in Yellowstone National Park and swamped scores of homes in surrounding communities moved downstream Wednesday and threatened to cut off fresh drinking water to residents of Montana’s largest city. ![]()
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