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Article: WATER FROM LAKE DELTON WELL ON ITS WAY TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER.(NEWS)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- June 10, 2008
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Byline: Anita Weier
The surge of 696 million gallons of water from now-empty Lake Delton has already flowed quite a way down the Wisconsin River toward the Mississippi River, a DNR spokesman said.
"We were a little worried about possible impact on the Portage Levee and had people patrolling that. So far, we are not aware of any problems," Greg Matthews, a spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources, said Tuesday morning.
The Wisconsin River levee system near Portage was at 15.27 feet Monday, nowhere near flood stage, he said.
Matthews was not aware of any environmental impact along the Wisconsin River from debris or ...