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Bike or run the Cherry Creek Trail? Beware of flooding through Wednesday evening

Denver7 · · 342 words · By Óscar Contreras
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DENVER — If you bike or run the Cherry Creek Trail, you may want to avoid it altogether Wednesday, according to officials with the U.S.

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What happened

DENVER — If you bike or run the Cherry Creek Trail, you may want to avoid it altogether Wednesday, according to officials with the U.S.

Why it matters

That’s because higher than normal water flows through the Cherry Creek Dam began earlier in the day as part of annual sediment flushing by the U.S.

Common ground

Learn more about why the flooding is needed in the video below: The higher flows “will cause higher than normal creek stages and potential flooding of the bike paths and stream crossings,” National Weather Service officials in Boulder said in an advisory…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “during a sediment flush – which is what’s happening Wednesday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. – those flows will fluctuate between 150 and 1,300 cubic feet per seconds”
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The specific flow rates (150 to 1,300 cubic feet per second) and the time window (9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday) are confirmed in the web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wednesday is an American supernatural mystery comedy television series based on the character Wednesday Addams by Charles Addams. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, it stars Jenna Ortega as the…
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Claim 2: “a cubic foot equal to 7.5 gallons of water”
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Multiple web search results confirm the standard conversion that one cubic foot of water equals approximately 7.5 gallons.
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web search NEUTRAL — A rectangular restaurant sink holds 50.4 gallons of water. It has a length of 3 ft and a height of 1.4 ft.The conversions used are standard measurements where 1 cubic foot equals about 7.5 gallons, wh…
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web search NEUTRAL — will assume that this volume is given in cubic feet. since one cubit foot of water equals about 7.5 gallons, we can determine the approximate number of gallons. in the lake by dividing the volume by 7…
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Claim 3: “The higher flows “will cause higher than normal creek stages and potential flooding of the bike paths and stream crossings,” National Weather Service officials in Boulder said in an advisory Wednesday morning.”
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While the general event of the flush and potential flooding is corroborated by multiple sources, the specific quote and advisory from the National Weather Service in Boulder are not explicitly found in the provided evidence snippets, which focus on USACE statements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) operates 122 weather forecast offices. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related produc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), named the Space Environment Center (SEC) until 2007, is a laboratory and service center of the US National Weather Service (NWS), part of the National Ocean…
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Claim 4: “The higher flows will take an estimated six hours to reach the Champa Street Bridge downstream”
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Three separate web search results explicitly state that the higher flows take an estimated six hours to reach the Champa Street Bridge.
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web search NEUTRAL — “The higher releases will take an estimated six hours to reach the Champa Street Bridge downstream of the dam,” USACE adds.
https://www.westword.com/news/denvers-cherry-creek-trail-mai…
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web search NEUTRAL — The planned higher releases are scheduled to be between 9 a.m. and noon, which will take an estimated six hours to reach the Champa Street Bridge downstream of the dam between Auraria Campus and downt…
https://kdvr.com/news/local/cherry-creek-trail-could-see-som…
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Claim 5: “higher than normal water flows through the Cherry Creek Dam began earlier in the day as part of annual sediment flushing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts annual sediment flushing at the Cherry Creek Dam and that a specific event was scheduled for a Wednesday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army. A Direct Reporting Unit (DRU), it has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, mi…
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Claim 6: “The annual flushing helps keep the gates clear of sediment so the gates can operate reliably when needed to help reduce downstream flood risk to people and property.”
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Multiple sources confirm the purpose of the annual sediment flush is to maintain the dam's outlet gates and manage downstream risk.
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web search NEUTRAL — Engineers will be flushing sediment out of the Cherry Creek Dam on Wednesday, meaning trails and crossings may flood.During Wednesday’s flush, between 150 and 1,300 cubic feet of water will be release…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/minor-flooding-possible-during-ch…
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web search NEUTRAL — An annual sediment flush of the Cherry Creek Dam will flood the channel Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning, which may close portions of the Cherry Creek Trail in and around downtown Denver.
https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/cherry-creek-in-denv…
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web search NEUTRAL — sediment in Cherry Creek downstream of the dam during the 2017 and 2018 pressure flushes. USGS crews measured suspended sediment from the upstream side of bridges spanning Cherry.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334771146_Cherry_Cr…
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Claim 7: “During normal operations, water flows through the Cherry Creek Dam release less than 100 cubic feet of water per second”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that during normal operations, releases are less than 100 cubic feet of water per second.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cherry Creek Dam (National ID # CO01280) is a dam in Arapahoe County, Colorado, southeast of Denver. The earthen dam was constructed between 1948 and 1950 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cherry Lake (also known as Lake Lloyd) is an artificial lake in the Stanislaus National Forest of Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A., about 25 miles (40 km) east of the city of Sonora. It is at an el…
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