Flooding Hits Mantorville

Heavy rains hit Mantorville and the surrounding area this past weekend. Along with a evacuation of River Side Park the city also monitored the RV camp site. The camp site was not evacuated and remained above the flood levels all weekend. I was able to document some of the waters encroachment at close to the high water mark and I wanted to share some of the photos I took of this event.

    The Covered Bridge stayed above the water level

In the next photo we can see that the new benches that were added this summer to River Side Park were in the path of the flood waters; however, the water velocity was not great and the benches did survive the event.

                                                           The new benches added this year were in the waters path

The flood waters greatly increased the water volume and velocity as it went over the Mantorville dam. In the photo below we see how the usually well pronounced dam's incline has been smoothed out and looks more like a bump in the waters flow.

    The dam looked more like a ripple in the heavy water flow

The final picture in this series show a panoramic view from the south side of the Covered Bridge and extensive encroachment of the flood waters into the surounding areas.

    Panoramic view of the Flood waters around the Covered Bridge