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Evacuation orders are lifted along all three San Juan County rivers as cleanup begins
3rivers fell below flood stage in San Juan County
The San Juan, Animas and La Plata rivers all dropped below flood stage Wednesday.
If you evacuated, you can head home. San Juan County leaders said Wednesday that the San Juan, Animas and La Plata rivers have fallen below flood stage, and all river evacuation orders are lifted.
Go carefully. "There's going to be standing water in some places, water across the road," said Devin Neeley, San Juan County Emergency Management PIO. The crisis cleanup line will take calls over the next couple of days.
- Power: mostly back to meters; a licensed electrician may need to check homes
- Pagosa Springs: U.S. 160 at the river is open; several downtown streets closed
- Durango: neighborhoods within city limits are open for debris cleanup
- Volunteers needed: sandbag filling and Red Cross distribution sites
Evacuations are lifted and roads reopen, but Pagosa Springs streets stay closed
Rivers, roads and neighborhoods after the flooding, as of 1:31 p.m. Nov. 4
✓3 Evacuations lifted
- San Juan River
- Animas River
- La Plata River
✓2 Open again
- U.S. 160 at San Juan River
- Durango city limits
✕1 Still closed
- Several downtown Pagosa streets
Not everyone is coming back to a house. Madison Abila, who is eight months pregnant, lost her family's home to a fire in 2020 and has now lost another to the flood. She says community support is helping her family take its first steps toward recovery.
