Levees in Lisbon

April 3, 2009
Lisbon, North Dakota

The Corps came into us about ten days ago 

kind of gave us a heads up of what was 

coming and to get ready for it.

We had been planning for a flood plain which 

is equal what we had last week,

which was 19.7.

So I would estimate that about 80 percent of 

the town is protected with clay levees to an 

elevation of about 24 feet. And the remaining 

twenty percent had been sandbagged or their 

natural grade or levees built in the nineties' '97 

flood to the 22 or 23 stage flood protection so 

we had not really messed with those any in 

this event.

Hopefully the weather that we have now, will 

warm up during the day, get a little bit of melt 

so you are not inundated the levees and 

tributaries around contributing to the 

Sheyenne , then freezing at night  kind of 

slows that flow down, so what we are going to 

see coming through town here is the release 

from our Bald Hill Dam which right now is at 

4200 cubic feet per second coming out of that 

dam and that has a meaning to us down here 

as to what it will raise our river elevation too 

so, if we see that flow, plus overland flow 

contributing flow to the tributaries, our stage 

will climb to about nineteen with that

kind of a flow.

You kind of hope that you don't get that. You 

kind of know what is coming but you

hope you don't.

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