Last night at 6 pm, the water was high, but 3.3 feet from the bridge. This morning there is no dam and the entire leveler system is exposed. The city came this morning and removed the dam and continued working until a resident came down and started filming. It wasn’t raining, there was never a risk of the water rising higher than the safe amount. I am heading down now to take pictures and talk to folks. There is some rumor that the pipe was clogged, although in very high flow situations like we had last night the pipe is moot. Remember that proposal by staff was to lower the dam by hand if it reached less than two feet clearance from the bridge. It is very unlikely that this ever happened.
The staff mentioned they had to do this because the “Cable had been cut” although this was reported two weeks ago at the subcommittee meeting with ample time to repair it. I will post more after I have seen the sight firsthand. Heidi
