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Old dam is coming down to ease flood threat to Lake City

Hidden Treasure Dam dates back to the 1890s
Hidden Treasure Dam dates back to the 1890s
A man poses by the spillway of the Hidden Treasure Dam which is adjacent to the Hidden Treasure Mine and Mill near Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colo., sometime between 1920-1930.

Colorado’s pre-summer snowpack is best described as epic right now. In the arid West, that’s the best news anyone could hope for – except for one problem.

Sudden and heavy snowmelt could flood Henson Creek in remote Hinsdale County and endanger the county’s lone town of Lake City.

The first casualty of that threat is a dam from the state’s mining boom days. Read the rest of the story at https://www.cpr.org/news.