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Summit County details spring runoff plans: sandbags, cameras and alerts as snowmelt begins
Summary
County emergency management and public works briefed the Board of Health on spring runoff planning, including mapping critical drainage nodes, deploying sandbag resources (county ~27,000; Park City ~30,000), requesting 80,000 state sandbags, and building an online outreach hub at summitcounty.org/flooding.
Summit County officials told the Board of Health on Monday they are stepping up preparations for spring runoff and possible flooding as the snowpack begins to melt. Catherine McMullen, who led the briefing alongside Bridget Conway from county communications, said teams have been mapping “critical nodes” — culverts, splits and points of collection — and coordinating multi‑agency resources to clear and protect infrastructure.
“We have about 27,000 sandbags in Summit County public works,” McMullen said, adding that Park City currently holds about 30,000 and that the county just received approval for 80,000 additional state sandbags to be delivered this week. Officials said sandbag inventories were informed by conversations with jurisdictions that responded to the 2021…
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