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People, Places, and Issues

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Title People, Places, and Issues
Contributor KCSU (Radio station : Fort Collins, Colo.) Keeton, Tom Watson, Robert Schrader, Delmar
Subject Radio journalism Floods -- Colorado -- Big Thompson River Floods -- Colorado -- Big Thompson Canyon Disaster response and recovery -- Colorado Big Thompson Canyon (Colo.) Larimer County (Colo.)
Description Reel 1: Tom Keeton interviewing Larimer County Sheriff Robert Watson, who was in charge of flood rescue and recovery Reel 2: Continuation of reel 1 Reel 3: Steve Mace interviewing Delmar Schrader (?) of the Interfaith Task Force; introduction given by host Tom Keeton about Colorado Land Use Commission decisions about camping and development in the Big Thompson Canyon and related disputes and state investigations of floodplain designations by the Colorado Water Conservation Board Reel 4: Continuation of reel 3; host Tom Keeton follows with information on a potential new emergency warning system and the status of government funding. Also includes commissioner Nona Thayer talking about land use. New program starts at 12:55, on same topics. Reel 5: Continuation of reel 4; interview of Wayne and Virginia Weir (?) regarding rebuilding in Big Thompson Canyon, criticism of Larimer County commissioners, and compliments for the Interfaith Task Force. Rex Burns of the Larimer County Planning Department and commissioner Nona Thayer each discuss the development moratorium. Recording ends with topic of western equine encephalitis Reel 6: Continuation of reel 5 Set of 6 reels containing recordings of 3 episodes of People, Places, and Issues, a radio show on KCSU FM, concerning the 1976 Big Thompson flood
Date 1976-1977 2016-06-14T19:07:00Z 2016-06-14T19:07:00Z
Type Audio
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10217/173015 Water Resources Archive Data Dictionary v. 2.0
Language English eng
Relation wwdl People, Places, and Issues. 1976-1977 David McComb Big Thompson Flood Collection. Series 4: Other audio and visual materials; Subseries 1: Audio reels. Finding aid: http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/water/wbtf.html
Format Reel 1: 16 minutes, 05 seconds Reel 2: 16 minutes, 02 seconds Reel 3: 15 minutes, 10 seconds Reel 4: 16 minutes, 09 seconds Reel 5: 16 minutes, 18 seconds Reel 6: 07 minutes, 13 seconds audio/mpeg audio/mpeg audio/mpeg audio/mpeg audio/mpeg audio/mpeg
Coverage Big Thompson Canyon (Colo.) Larimer County (Colo.) 1976-1977
Publisher Colorado State University. Libraries
Source Original: 6 5-inch Ampex 291 Professional audio visual recording tapes, 1/4" x 600', 1/5 mil polyester

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