Flooding Evacuations Due to Flooding on November 1

The Navajo Police Department at Shiprock asked everyone living a half mile around the San Juan River to leave as a precaution on November 1, Sunday afternoon due to flooding along the river.

 

Utah Navajo Health Systems EMS station in Montezuma Creek has been set up as a shelter for flood victims.

 

Those orders match ones issued upstream as the San Juan County, New Mexico emergency management has issued evacuations for residents within a half-mile of the Animas and San Juan Rivers.

 

In Bluff residents and businesses along Cottonwood Wash were evacuated Sunday evening. With a shelter available at the Bluff Community Center. Town officials shared river levels were being monitored with the town later sharing river levels had gone down, town officials also noted water levels in the San Juan as of Sunday evening didn’t seem to be near the levels seen last weekend.

 

Evacuations are underway as well in the Monticello area for residences downstream from Loyds Lake. Watch for official communications for all evacuation orders.