Last July, Avon experienced a significant rain event that overwhelmed town infrastructure and caused rain and mud damage to multiple residential properties in town.
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6:15 p.m. update: Multiple mudslides in the Avon area closed westbound Interstate 70 at mile marker 167 as well as Nottingham Road in Avon west of Buck Creek Road on Thursday afternoon. All roads including Nottingham Road as well westbound I-70 reopened just after 6 p.m.
The mudslides were triggered by heavy rainfall in the area.
Cody Cosper, Avon’s deputy chief of police, said the heavy rains caused a fairly significant mudslide on Nottingham Road around the 300-400 block and also on Swift Gulch Road at about the 300-400 block. There were also some smaller mudslides up along Buck Creek Road, Mountain Star Road and on Wildwood Road.