• Some landowners along the Little Thompson River were calling it “the forgotten river” as recovery from the September 2013 flood was underway two years after it happened. Where the river had been 70 feet wide in places it was blasted to 300 yards, according to Gordon Gilstrap of the Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition. “The Little Thompson has been an unknown river because no county or state roads run along it for any distance. It is all privately owned,” he said.

• Crews were putting finishing touches on repairs to the Nelson Big Dam. The masonry arch dam, built in 1895 and located west of Loveland’s water treatment plant, was significantly damaged in the September 2013 flood.

• The Department of Colorado American Legion honored the Loveland Elks Lodge with a plaque for the

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