Water Levels

[jpb2187]

9 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

It's also making southbound traffic out of St. Louis a nightmare.  My wife is in St. Louis today and fortunately, is staying the night. At present, there may not be ANY way to get past the Meramec heading south, without traveling halfway to Jefferson City and then down.  MODot website keeps crashing from all the people trying to figure out how to get home from work.  All the highways crossing the river from Eureka on into St. Louis are closed, except that I-55 might have one lane open at present.

Fortunately I am not closed off, but I live at 44/270. Took me 1 1/2 hours to get home last night from Chesterfield. Everyone was trying to get on 270 since 141 was shut down.

[Al Agnew]

One other interesting thing I was curious about...this was the second highest flood crest ever on the Bourbeuse at Union, fourth highest on the middle Meramec at Sullivan, yet has resulted in the highest ever at Eureka, downstream from where the two come together.  It was fourth highest on Big River, but will possibly be the highest, or the second highest, at Valley Park below the mouth of Big River.

[moguy1973]

I think all the levees that have been built over the years closer to St. Louis has contributed to the record water crests we are seeing.  They squeeze the water into a smaller area and that water has to go somewhere so it gets higher in places that it has never been that high ever before.  I never thought I'd see old downtown Eureka underwater.  That area is at least a mile from the river.

[Hog Wally]

I have spent a lot of time in the last few days on my deck or staring out the window. I have watched  the river try to get back in a old channel from days of old when injuns camped where my house sits   Upstream where the neighbors spent tens of thousands of dollars on stream bank erosion control , nothing has changed   Maybe got deeper. Don't know yet but across the river from me it's complete carnage the way it's taking out sycamores. I have a pile of boulders as tall as a house and I will be following suit with the neighbors.  I'd rather keep the bank and have it be deeper than wider. 

[cwc87]

The huzzah at Hwy 8  beat March 18 2008 by four inches.   Since the new bridge was built in 1993 it has changed our water mark the way we measure it.  By guessing it was. Lose to the flood of 93.  But not quite as big as the flood of 82.   Either way this time last week was water every where.