Buffalo Creek near Springfield

The past week

What floods at each level

• 36.5 ft

  A residential driveway begins to flood, though the home itself is well above the floodplain.

• 36 ft

  The road, 168th Street, leading to the bridge, and the bridge itself are flooded.

• 34 ft

  The natural banks begin to be overtopped. Prior to this level, ditches are filling which may allow nearby fields to flood.

• 33.5 ft

  The bottom of the bridge at the gage site is impacted by floodwaters.

• 31 ft

  Water enters ditches and culvert inlets along the right bank.

When the water runs low

• 5 ft

  Stage needed to inundate designated Gulf Sturgeon critical habitat below Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam.

• 3 ft

  Temporary (not sustainable) operating level for of Scholz Power Plant

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