Watching the creeks and rivers in Salt Lake is a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week operation that is being handled by what they call 'The Stream Team.'
The crews come from the Salt Lake City Public Utilities department and are usually working office jobs not walking along river banks.
Arche usually works in customer service. But she loves a change of pace to be checking river crates to make sure they are not clogging up with debris.Working alongside her is Dave Ward, who is an investigator with the public utilities department, not a river watcher. There is high-tech equipment and stream gages that monitor the rivers and creeks, but Laura Briefer, the director of Salt Lake City's Public Utilities Department, said nothing beats actual eyes on the waters to know exactly what is happening."It's our responsibility to make sure we provide good information to the community. The community is very concerned about risk ," she said. "An extraordinary snowpack like this requires an extraordinary reaction.
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