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| Photo: Greg Wright |
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| Image: NOAA/AHPS |
With sandbags at the ready, the city of Delano is ready to take on the annual Crow River flood waters that slowly continue to rise. At the Bridge St. bridge the water currently stands at 18.15ft with an expected crest of about 19.2ft sometime Saturday afternoon. A backhoe has been brought in to break up an ice jam as of 2:30pm Friday. If the predicted crest verifies, the 2011 crest will fall about a foot shy of last years crest of 20.3 ft. This is good news to all those living along the Crow River considering they do not need a repeat of 1965's record setting crest of 23.2ft. Fortunately the temps have stayed cool enough to prevent a rapid runoff of the newly fallen snow, and should stay that way for the next week or so. The other bit of good news is that there also little to no precipitation forecasted over that time which will help rivers slowly recede. We will be monitoring the river closely over the next several days so stay tuned for updates!
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