06/19/2003: "Disaster declared in East Vail"
VAIL -- A disaster has been declared in East Vail more than two weeks after water spilling from a busted freeway drain flooded streets and homes.
Stretches of Spruce Way and Columbine Drive were ruined when Bighorn Creek overflowed June 1. The surging creek also destroyed a culvert running under Interstate 70, causing a sinkhole the closed the freeway for about four days. (Vail Daily News)


