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.