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Article: Lake Delton's lifeblood flows once more Water begins its return, restoring tourist spot from June disaster
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2008
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Lake Delton -- It grew eerily quiet below the dam Wednesday
morning, not far from where Lake Delton disappeared through a chasm
six months ago.
As the last of three gates on the newly renovated dam closed, the
quiet sound of water spilling through ebbed and then stopped. The
stillness was the first step in filling the lake, which lost most of
its liquid in a catastrophic breach last summer.
"You can hear the sound is changing -- no more running water,"
said Meg Galloway, chief of dams and floodplains for the Department
of Natural Resources, as she stood on the snowy slope overlooking
the dam shortly after it closed at 10:15 a.m.
With traffic once again traversing Highway A next to the dam, ...