A University of Oregon booster association will deliver 250 backpacks filled with school supplies and other items Friday to one of Colorado’s hardest-hit areas from recent floods.

Ducks at the Beach, a group of UO backers who live along Oregon’s northern coast, is donating 250 backpacks Friday to students at Lyons Elementary School in Lyons, Colo. Organizer Tim Regan estimated the gifts to be worth $10,000.

As part of massive statewide flooding in early September, hundreds of Lyons residents were evacuated Sept. 13. Ten days later, E. coli was found in the city's water, according to the Los Angeles Times. Lyons is about a 40-mile drive north of Boulder.

“I’ve got a cousin who lives out there and they were one of the thousand families airlifted from their home,” Regan said. “They don’t get to go back to their house until May, after the snow falls, because the roads are so bad.”

Lyons Elementary is not open to students yet and instead has become a de facto city hall, Regan said. He’s worked with school district officials to find the neediest families still in the area. Regan connected with Nike through a mutual friend who’s known company co-founder Phil Knight since college. He said the company only asked, “how can we help you?’”

Two hundred of the backpacks are Nike donations, and shoes – whether physical deliveries or discounts – might be part of the aid package, too. Gearhart Schools North Coast Communities in Schools donated the other 50. Oregon’s Duck Store also donated items such as T-shirts, UO decals and lanyards.

In addition Regan said nearly 30 volunteers are ready to volunteer labor on a rebuilding project in the city if one can be found.

And to think, he said, he considered canceling his trip to see No. 2 Oregon face Colorado in Boulder on Saturday because of the flood damage.

“We had plans to go out to the game anyway and we had plans also to see beautiful Colorado but we thought about canceling the trip,” he said. “But then we knew that wouldn’t be right.”