{"id":17554,"date":"2013-04-29T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17554"},"modified":"2013-04-30T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T12:41:14","slug":"v-c-comm-gets-good-flood-forecast-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=17554","title":{"rendered":"Update…Valley City Gets Good Flood Forecast Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 29, 2013) — Bald Hill Dam Manager, Rich Schueneman says if precipitation in the Sheyenne River basin in the next three weeks is not significant, the Corps of Engineers will begin releasing 2,000 from the dam on Sunday or Monday May 5,6, 2013.<\/p>\n

On Monday Schueneman said as of now its unlikely that river levels will affect Barnes County bridges.<\/p>\n

Previously…<\/p>\n

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) \u2013 The Valley City Commission met in Special Session Friday Morning (Apr 26, 2013) at 10 a.m. at City Hall. Commissioners Luke and Nielson were not present.<\/p>\n

Mayor Werkhoven said the purpose of the meeting is to get an update on the flood forecast along the Sheyenne River.<\/p>\n

Army Corp of Engineer\u2019s Bald Hill Dam Manager, Rich Schueneman said, the snow melt is progressing favorably upstream and that barring a significant rain event, the Corps is presently not looking to increase the Bald Hill Dam release higher than 2,000 cfs which would be held for about three weeks.<\/p>\n

He added that a release of 3,000-4,000 cfs, if needed,\u00a0would not cause a significant flooding problem in Valley City.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the National Weather Service hydrographic information previously put the chance of a 16.9 foot Shyenne River level at Valley City at 50-percent.<\/p>\n

He said as of Friday he\u2019s looking more toward a 95 percent chance of the river level at Valley City at 12.9 feet.<\/p>\n

On Friday the Bald Hill Dam release was increased to 500 cfs, to match the inflow. On Friday morning the local flow at Valley City was 300 cfs., with the Sheyenne River level at Valley City at 5.81 feet. \u00a0Flood stage is 15 feet.<\/p>\n

The Lake Ashtabula level was at 1,257.28 feet, with the pool level handling additional storage expected to reach 1,266 feet by May 1, 2013.<\/p>\n

Schueneman said over this weekend, the release will be ramped up to 2,000 cfs, to “be aggressive, on the front end,” of releases, and to maintain adequate flood storage capacity.<\/p>\n

He said, in the river basin at Maddock there is currently significant snowpack moisture, which takes about 7-10 days to reach downstream.<\/p>\n

He added that as of Friday not much snow cover remains in Valley City for runoff.<\/p>\n

The Corps will continue to monitor the flows in the northern basin, for any possible changes in the Bald Hill Dam Releases.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the river at Kathryn is ice free.<\/p>\n

Valley City Administrator, Daivd Schelkoph said Valley City is prepared to protect to a river level of 19 feet, at which time emergency levees would have to go in place\u2026. with all flood plans in place if needed.<\/p>\n

The meeting was shown live on CSi 68 followed by replays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 29, 2013) — Bald Hill Dam Manager, Rich Schueneman says if precipitation in the Sheyenne River basin in the next three weeks is not significant, the Corps of Engineers will begin releasing 2,000 from the dam on Sunday or Monday May 5,6, 2013. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17812,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions\/17812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}