The following is a portion of an e-mail I got from the University of Iowa today:
"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has indicated that, based on recent and projected rainfall, there is concern that the water elevation in the Coralville Reservoir may reach the emergency spillway later this month. If that occurs, significant flooding can be expected in the Iowa City area. To reduce the risk of this occurring, the Corps increased the release rate from the Coralville Reservoir on Tuesday, June 3, to 10,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and will increase the release rate again to 12,000 cfs possibly as soon as Thursday, June 5. Additional increases in release rates may be implemented in the coming days."
For the res to go over the spillway, it's going to have to get stinking high.
We haven't had flooding like that around here since 1993. This aerial view of the reservoir and dam shows the spillway on the left side of the dam. In 1993, the water going over the spillway uprooted 30 ton chunks of bedrock and washed them downstream, exposing a Devonian Era fossil bed shown in the top picture, looking upstream to the spillway. They are already sandbagging around one of the dorms that is down near the river in Iowa City. If the water gets over the spillway, the Peninsula (my favorite disc golf course) will be toast.'93 was a crazy time growing up in Southeast Iowa. I'd rather not repeat it. Especially now, when I need no (extra) distractions.
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