... autumn mudslides closed Big and Little Cottonwood canyons and creeks flooded, damaging three hundred homes, roads, and bridges. In fact, September's "once-in-a-century flood" turned out to be only a bath. Although January and February 1983 proved mild, March again broke records with deluges of rain and snow. The entire state felt the effects of the deluge, humorously summed up by ... number of cancer cases in Salt Lake to the Nevada nuclear testing, the burden of proof seems to be burying down on the government to take responsibility for their erroneous acts and also to learn from these...

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• Grade Level: High School