Cuivre River at Old Monroe

The past week

What floods at each level

• 37.4 ft

  This is the RECORD FLOOD LEVEL that was reached on December 4 1982.

• 37 ft

  The levee protecting Old Monroe is overtopped, though this levee level of protection is closer to 35.5 at the old 79 bridge.

• 35.79 ft

  Main Street in Old Monroe is flooded. At this height there is nothing left to prevent water from moving across town. This is the height of the pavement on the Old Monroe side of the old Highway 79 bridge.

• 35.5 ft

  Water will begin moving across the lawn of the first Main Street home adjacent to the old Highway 79 bridge.

• 33.79 ft

  Low Steel Elevation on Old 79 Highway Bridge is reached.

• 33 ft

  Near this height, Missouri State Highway 79 is closed south of the Cuivre River bridge.

• 31.8 ft

  Old Highway 79 floods between Old Monroe and Highway 79.

• 31.25 ft

  Low steel on the BNSF railroad bridge is reached.

• 30.8 ft

  The Corner of Sycamore St. and First Street is flooded.

• 30 ft

  Major flooding begins. Residential flooding in Old Monroe.

• 28.1 ft

  Dyer Road upstream from the gage begins flooding just downstream of the new Highway 79 bridge.

• 27 ft

  Right bank overflows.

• 24.5 ft

  Extensive left bank agricultural flooding develops upstream of the gage. A utility road is flooded along the Old Monroe levee along the left bank upstream of the gage.

• 24 ft

  Initial flooding upstream.

• 23.5 ft

  Minor agricultural land begins to flood.

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