Flooding....Again.

The USGS water depth gage rose from 3.49' at 3:15am on Saturday, June 28th to 7.45' @ 5:15pm, on Sunday, June 29, 2008. This was the 14th high water event this year.




Due to heavy localized rain, the USGS River gage went from 3.87' at 11:15 pm on Thursday, June 19 to a high water level of 8.27' at 9:30 pm on Friday, June 20, 2008. Another line of thunderstorms moved through Monday, June 23, raising the water gage from 4.19' at 2:00am, to a high point of 5.51' at 12:15 pm. These spikes in the water depth were high water events #12 and #13, respectively.


Due to extraordinary rainfall in the area, the USGS rain gage at the La Russell Access Point on Spring River, rose for 3.57' at 6:16am on Friday, June 13, 2008 to 12.62' on Saturday, June 14th. Record Rainfall Across the Ozarks on Friday the 13th...



The USGS Spring River gage on Monday, June 9, 2008, indicated a high water event of 5.82' at 6:45pm. This followed a water gage increase to 4.45' on Saturday, June 7, 2008.




The June 1, 2008 (Sunday) early morning downpour created the 10th high water event of the year. The USGS water gage indicated a baseline of 2.77' rising to 6.91' by 1:45pm.




The USGS water gage graph indicates the water depth went from 3.13' on (Wednesday) May 7 to 8.33' on (Thursday) May 8 at 5:00am.





The USGS water gage graph indicates the depth went from 4.0' at 3:15am (on Thursday, April 24th) to a high of 7.31' at 9:45am, an average increase of 0.66' per hour.




Once again, the La Russell Access point was flooded, due to excessive rain fall in the area. The water gage indicated an increase from 4.37' at midnight on April 9 to a high of 12.71' at 9:15 PM on April 10.


There have been 15 "high water' events in 2008. They were:
9.10' on January 9, 2008
4.98' on February 6
4.05' on February 11
7.73' on February 17
6.92' on March 3
13.68' on March 19,
12.71' on April 9,
7.31' on April 24,
8.33' on May 8,
6.91' on June 1,
12.62' on June 13-14,
8.27' on June 20,
5.51' on June 23,
7.45' on June 29, and
6.95' on September 15, 2008.

The water gage was installed on the La Russell Access site on May 1, 2007.
The following are (recorded) "high water" events in 2007:
6.30' on May 11, 2007
7.72' on June 2
11.11' on June 10
11.25' on July 1
12.8' on August 20
5.29' on September 7, and
11.37' on September 8, 2007.