High Enough

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has an interesting idea on managing the water level at Saylorville Lake.

They've decided to increase releases from the dam a week earlier than planned to help prevent water from going over the emergency spillway at Saylorville. Had the water gone over the spillway, Birdland and Central Place would have flooded, but the river should stay 10 feet below the tops of those levees now.

TWO YEARS TOO LATE and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In 2008 I opined --

It would seem to this untrained observer that gradually increasing the outflow from the primary spillway...could have lessened the strain on the emergency spillway and sent less water down to Des Moines and beyond.

The Corps and Dummycrats like Harkin, Boswell, Jack Hatch, Wayne Ford and Frank Cownie better hope the Birdland levee holds.