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Ellipsis

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3. Apparently the damn/locks could fail on lake Mendota...

Reply to milestogo (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 09:29 PM

Aug 2018

...if they dont open them up. Mendota is about 5 feet higher then Lake Monona from what I remember. They have to release more water via the Yahara River into Monona and its 2" over historical high now. The Yahara is about 20 blocks east of the capital.

They are sandbagging along the Yahara and other places. Hopefully all will be good.

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Pretty crazy rainfall amounts in Mazo and Crossplains and Middleton [View all] Ellipsis Aug 2018 OP

Jeez ! magicarpet Aug 2018 #1

And more to come, including downtown Madison and east side... milestogo Aug 2018 #2

Apparently the damn/locks could fail on lake Mendota... Ellipsis Aug 2018 #3

Photo of the Yahara between Mendota and Monona milestogo Aug 2018 #4

At one point I lived about a hundred yards from that bridge. Ellipsis Aug 2018 #5