Mississinewa is a mess

Went driving around the res. yesterday. Poor Missy is in bad shape. To start 21' over summer pool, water mud brown and full of trash, debris. and trees. The amount of soda bottles and styrofoam cups I saw mixed in with the bark and sticks was unbelievable; anyone remember Woodsy the Owl ? Large logs and thick debris blocked the ramps, might get a boat in but would be hard to get it back out. For those who are familiar with the 1812 area the water was up to the edge of the road that runs parallel to the river. The whole battle field area is under water. The Wabash is just under flood stage at around 12' so they are not letting much out at all. Could be a month before things get to normal again. Had a good couple of weeks in early April, but looks to be done for now. Just thought I'd share.

Every Indiana lake in the Louisville COE district is a disaster!

Not many lakes to fish in due to high water, and the ones that are available are getting slammed very hard.

Patoka needs only 0.8 ft to go over the emergency spillway. And still raining right now. I will never understand why COE kept Patoka high all winter when there were many times they could release and didn’t. It’s the reason they lost all the weed beds.

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Originally Posted by kyron4

Went driving around the res. yesterday. Poor Missy is in bad shape. To start 21' over summer pool, water mud brown and full of trash, debris. and trees. The amount of soda bottles and styrofoam cups I saw mixed in with the bark and sticks was unbelievable; anyone remember Woodsy the Owl ? Large logs and thick debris blocked the ramps, might get a boat in but would be hard to get it back out. For those who are familiar with the 1812 area the water was up to the edge of the road that runs parallel to the river. The whole battle field area is under water. The Wabash is just under flood stage at around 12' so they are not letting much out at all. Could be a month before things get to normal again. Had a good couple of weeks in early April, but looks to be done for now. Just thought I'd share.

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We "had" our annual trip scheduled for Mother's Day weekend to Salimonie, but had to cancel because of the water....
Thanks for the update.

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The Corp is going to release more water than normal now. I saw an article in the news today and read about this last week too. They had to get permission from the district HQ in Cincinnatti. The ramps to the docks at Patoka Lake are under water and the water is still rising at the Marina. Some of the decks were under water and the workers put some concrete blocks on the deck to walk on top of so as not to get the feet wet. The beach is way under water.

A friend of mine said that the built the overflow up higher in the past few years and added more rock on the back side of the overflow. I guess that's to prevent the overflow area from washing away if the water goes over the top. It's been years since I saw that overflow area but my memory tells me it was made out of concrete. But my friend said it's not concrete. He said a few years ago when the water got really hight he took his pontoon boat over by the overflow and he could look down the other side of the overflow area as the water was so high.

The fishing at Patoka is bad now as you can't get a boat under the bridges and the fisherman's camp ground launch ramp and walls ramp is all under water.

I live in NE Indiana on a lake. The water looks like chocolate milk.

Thanks for the update

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Originally Posted by crappiewisdom

I live in NE Indiana on a lake. The water looks like chocolate milk.

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Thanks

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Originally Posted by cevans

Patoka needs only 0.8 ft to go over the emergency spillway. And still raining right now. I will never understand why COE kept Patoka high all winter when there were many times they could release and didn’t. It’s the reason they lost all the weed beds.

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There scare to release water, years ago they released to much water and flooded the farmers out and took a big lawsuit, or so I hear.