City Creek 's waters submerged the waterway below North Temple Street in 1983 .
Spring snowmelt from the surrounding mountains can cause localized stream flooding during late spring and early summer , the worst examples being in 1952 and especially 1983 , when City Creek burst its banks , ( Creek-bed scouring in Memory Grove , caused by high spring run-off in City Creek , filled much of the submerged waterway running westward under North Temple Street towards the Jordan River ) forcing city engineers to convert several downtown streets into waterways .
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