Maddy Fontaine

River Hydraulics Engineer || Colorado Front Range || Post Wildfire Debris Flows || Infrastructure Scour || Sediment Transport || @UWMadisonCEE alum || she/hers

[Appalachian Life 🍂 @app_life_]

This is Yancey County, NC. The pictures are from Sheriff Deputy Daniel Joyner. “Please share with the world how bad it really is.” The damage is apocalyptic. Pictures don’t do it justice.

[NWS Cheyenne @NWSCheyenne]

Very cool video from Scottsbluff today! Scottsbluff received a lot of hail and rain. As the rain piled up, hail started flowing along with it, similar to debris flow! #newx #wywx

[Caltrans District 4 @CaltransD4]

#TRAFFICALERT: One-way traffic control is in place on State Route 84 just east of Palomares in Alameda County due to a slipout. For live traffic conditions go to Caltrans Quickmap 🔗https://t.co/cipKtcceGE

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A teenager has captured the moment a landslide occurred at Lulworth Cove in Dorset.

https://t.co/uyjaG6nMV3

[JamesNiehues @JamesNiehues]

This regional map of Donner Summit in California illustrates how dense and plentiful the skiing and snowboarding opportunities around Lake Tahoe can be.
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[Maddy Fontaine @ScientistMads]

Always fun to take part in a Fort Collins “holiday”! 🚴 ❄️

[Ayres Associates @AyresInc]

Staff from our Fort Collins, CO, office braved the cooler temps last Friday and pedaled their way to the office during the Winter Bike to Work Day. #wbtwdfortcollins

[Maddy Fontaine @ScientistMads]

Check out the post fire restoration work we’ve been doing!! 🪵

[Ayres Associates @AyresInc]

Learn about Low-tech Process-based Restoration, a cutting-edge method for stream restoration that uses simple, hand-built structures to create flow complexity and reconnect streams to their floodplain. https://t.co/m4RpF9sAPM

[Jakob Steiner @jakobfsteiner]

impressive example from today in tirol on how forests are not necessarily a safety net for infrastructure against debris flows (photos @zeitungsfoto)

[Alex Hoon @RenoFireWxIMET]

Incredible debris flow/flooding damage from #Hilary. That ski lift is buried in about 10 feet of mud and rock. Here's what it's supposed to look like vs. today. @NWSVegas

[Dave Petley @davepetley]

A compilation of videos of debris flows and mudflows triggered by #StormHilary in the United States:- https://t.co/5UN1F5NLpT #hilaryhurricane #hilarystorm #TropicalCycloneHilary

[Paul Burgess @wp_burgess]

Boulders coming through!

[JASMINE VIEL @jasmineviel]

Video from @SBCounty shows mud flow near WRIGHTWOOD in Sheep Creek #HILARY #storm

[Maddy Fontaine @ScientistMads]

My job is just…river! 👷‍♀️ 🌊

[News 4 Reno @News4Reno]

WOW! Heavy, sudden rains caused a significant mudslide near the Casino Fandango in Carson City. Submit your weather photos and videos to https://t.co/aLUs1j8UWn for a chance to be featured on air and online.

📸: Emma Mastrain

[Uinta-Wasatch-Cache NF @UWCNF]

#uwcnf Spanish Fork Ranger District Photos of the road damage on the North Nebo Loop Road above Pete Winward Trailhead has worsened. The entire road has given way and is currently a 20 plus foot drop and 15-20 feet wide.

[Maddy Fontaine @ScientistMads]

Both structures are trying to reduce sediment loads downstream, which had been drastically increased by the Cameron Peak Fire impacted water treatment by municipalities.

[Maddy Fontaine @ScientistMads]

Checking in on some post fire stream rehabilitation structures this week in northern Colorado. The rock checks are intended to hold grade while the added large wood material slow velocities and encourage sediment deposition in the channel.

[USGS Science in Colorado @USGS_CO]

Warm temperatures and melting snowpack bring some hydrologic action to the West Slope of Colorado. The photos here show a debris flow near Glenwood Springs and a full Roubideau Creek near Delta. Our teams will be out measuring all the high flows this spring around Colorado.

[Federal Highway Admn @USDOTFHWA]

Happy #StarWarsDay! Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs. That’s 73.2 times farther than the 3.14 trillion miles that the American people drove in 2022. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

[UDOT Cottonwood Canyons @UDOTcottonwoods]

🚧 #RoadClosureUpdate🚧 
REMINDER: #SR210 CLOSED

‼️NO ETO - closed to all travel

Debris flows continued into the evening yesterday, @UDOTavy & @UtahDOT crews are beginning cleanup work this morning.

📍: Seven Turns
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