Hazelton Boat ramp

[BDub]

https://www.nwd-mr.usace.army.mil/rcc/plots/plots_rollover.html#

Use this link to track the water levels. If Oahe comes up another foot, you'll be able to put a big boat in at Yates.

I’ve been watching the levels in the Bismarck Tribune. Oahe should be going up because the outflows are really low. The river seems high as far as I could tell from the Expressway bridge.

 

[tikkalover]

What really needs to happen is for the Mississippi Valley south of Iowa to get flooded. Huge amounts of rain are needed down there so that they flood so much they have to stop the outflow from the big 3 dams.

Rowdie, your wish is going to come true.

Here in the next week they will be shutting down barge traffic from the cities down stream on the Mississippi for 2 to 3 weeks ( unless more moisture falls in that region\watershed it could be longer) due to flooding.

 

[risingsun]

If I read the corp stats correctly, it looked like Sakakawea came up a foot in the last 3 or 4 days? Or are the readings bolstered by the wind? Allen????

 

[NDwalleyes]

If I recall correctly, the Corp forecast calls for Oahe should be up 3 feet by months end.

 

[Sluggo]

From https://www.nwd-mr.usace.army.mil/rcc/reports/twregfcast.pdf

 

[Bfishn]

If I read the corp stats correctly, it looked like Sakakawea came up a foot in the last 3 or 4 days? Or are the readings bolstered by the wind? Allen????

Wind does affect the gauges, but looks like the lake did actually raise that much as the inflows really surged and are now going back down. I'm thinking that was the main surge of local runoff and now we wait for the mountain runoff.

 

[Rowdie]

So OAHE has come up 4 ft in the last 2 weeks with 3 of those in the last week! Since this winter it's come up about 6 or 7 feet. I'm doing this on memory as I don't like going to all the other pages of that site. But I know it never got below 1590 but maybe was close to that. So around an 8 ft rise, that's a lot of vertical water and will cover a lot of shoreline!

 

[Allen]

Wind does affect the gauges, but looks like the lake did actually raise that much as the inflows really surged and are now going back down. I'm thinking that was the main surge of local runoff and now we wait for the mountain runoff.

This would appear to be the correct interpretation of what's transpired. There was a very brief period of high water at Williston, but that was mostly ice messing with the stage as the Yellowstone shed its ice load. The Milk River is currently running near its record out in Montana, but that water has yet to make its way into our neck of the woods.

 

[Bfishn]

So OAHE has come up 4 ft in the last 2 weeks with 3 of those in the last week! Since this winter it's come up about 6 or 7 feet. I'm doing this on memory as I don't like going to all the other pages of that site. But I know it never got below 1590 but maybe was close to that. So around an 8 ft rise, that's a lot of vertical water and will cover a lot of shoreline!

Oahe was 1589.71 on Jan 1st and now sits at 1598.04 so over an 8' rise. It seems to me like they were letting more than usual out of Sak all winter and allowing Oahe to rise.

 

[Allen]

Oahe was 1589.71 on Jan 1st and now sits at 1598.04 so over an 8' rise. It seems to me like they were letting more than usual out of Sak all winter and allowing Oahe to rise.

This is also true, the Corps was "balancing the river" over much of the winter.

 

[Shockwave]

I like where this is going. Hopefully it comes up another 8-10 feet.

 

[BDub]

At 1595 we were barely able to get out of Langliers. So 3 feet more is great. Unless the mouth of the bay silted in.

 

[Allen]

At 1595 we were barely able to get out of Langliers. So 3 feet more is great. Unless the mouth of the bay silted in.

That amount of siltation in one year seems fairly unreasonable given it's pretty lake-like down there.

 

[Rowdie]

I’ve been watching the levels in the Bismarck Tribune. Oahe should be going up because the outflows are really low. The river seems high as far as I could tell from the Expressway bridge.

And it is. (rising) 3 ft in the last week. OUTFLOWS are everything!! Inflows don't mean much if they just run it all through right away.

 

[Mr. Pike]

Is the dock in at Hazelton yet?

 

[Kurtr]

I wish someone would do that to the Walker Bottoms ramp on the west side. That's the one by PKC

We did last fall. Made parking lot bigger and graded it

 

[Rowdie]

Oh sweet I'll have to check it out. Did they put a doc on the ramp? Probably under water now idk

 

[Kurtr]

Oh sweet I'll have to check it out. Did they put a doc on the ramp? Probably under water now idk

That I don’t know we did it last fall.

 

[Kurtr]

Mississippi is supposed to be major flood stage

 

[Shockwave]

I drove by yesterday and it appeared people were getting in. I would say 6-12 trucks and trailers in the parking lot.