Photos: Vallecito flooding aftermath

By Jerry McBride | Durango Herald

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Jean Earp, with McCarty Excavation & Construction at Vallecito Reservoir, talks on Tuesday about his experiences that he has had since Vallecito Creek started flooding on Saturday in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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Lots of machinery has been deployed to deal with a flooding Vallecito Creek on Tuesday in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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One of two houses on Tuesday were torn down that flooding Vallecito Creek was under cutting the foundations of the structures and were about to fall into the creek making it a threat that to a bridge and causing other problems in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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The foot bridge that people would walk up to to cross Vallecito Creek is on Tuesday is no longer accessible as the creek channel water flow has changed in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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A home sits on Tuesday as Vallecito Creek flooding has cut all access to it with the creek flowing on both sides in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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A home sits with flowing water around it on Tuesday as Vallecito Creek continues to flood in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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The hot tub that was filmed floating down a flooding Vallecito Creek on Saturday is seen on Tuesday in Vallecito Reservoir at the north end of the lake. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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Logan Mosher, a firefighter with Upper Pine River Fire Protection District, places caution tape across the closed road on Tuesday that leads down to Five Branches Camper Park in north Vallecito after the flooding Pine River has made a bridge unsafe to get to the park. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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A tree floats down a flooding Vallecito Creek on Tuesday in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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One of two houses on Tuesday were torn down that flooding Vallecito Creek was under cutting the foundations of the structures and were about to fall into the creek making it a threat that to a bridge and causing other problems in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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An excavator repairs a levee on Tuesday that a flooding Vallecito Creek tore through causing flooding around area homes in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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The clubhouse in the Mountain River Subdivision on Tuesday is surrounded by flood waters from Vallecito Creek at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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The Pine River barely flows on Tuesday around the bridge that leads to Five Branches Camper Park in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
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Logan Mosher, a firefighter with Upper Pine River Fire Protection District, talks on Tuesday about the decision that was made to take down a house that the flooding Vallecito Creek was under cutting the foundation and was about to fall into the creek making it a threat that to a bridge and causing other problems in north Vallecito. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)