Flooding, Sept. 6-9, 2007

Excessive rain Thursday morning (September 6), along with rain Friday evening-Saturday morning (September 7-8) resulted in flooding in Spring River. These pictures were taken at 2:15pm, Saturday, September 8, 2007, with water guage indicating 11.06' (and rising). Rain totals have been reported between 6-8" in the area.

USGS Water Guage at LaRussell indicated an increase in river depth from 2.08' (at 3:15am Thursday, Sept 6) to 5.29' (at 3:30pm on Thursday) and an increase from 2.78' (on Saturday, Sept 8 at 3:15am to 11.37' (at 4:00pm on Saturday).


Blackberry and Wild plum seedlings under water, south side of river, east side of bridge. [click on photographs for enlarged view]






Looking south from north side of river, east side of bridge.







Looking north, from driveway ramp, west side of bridge, south of river.







Looking down at seedlings, east side of bridge, south side of river.







Aromatic Summac seedlings, south side of drive embankment







Looking north from Gum Road, east side of bridge, south of river.