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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI

202 PM CDT WED APR 17 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR GOGEBIC

COUNTY...



AT 200 PM CDT...FLOODING CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF GOGEBIC COUNTY.



LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN MARENISCO 

REPORTED THAT THE WOOD BIRE-PRESQUE ISLE DAM SOUTH OF MARENISCO DID 

NOT EXPERIENCE A COMPLETE FAILURE AS OF 145 PM CDT. HOWEVER...TEN 

FOOT SECTIONS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DAM HAD WASHED OUT AND THE DAM 

WAS IN DANGER OF FAILING. IN MARENISCO...US-2 AND M-64 WERE CLOSED 

DUE TO HIGH WATER. A FEW HOMES IN MARENISCO WERE ALSO BEING IMPACTED 

BY FLOOD WATERS. SOME EVACUATIONS WERE TAKING PLACE ALONG THE 

PRESQUE ISLE RIVER IN MARENISCO.



IN THE WAKEFIELD AREA...SUNDAY LAKE CONTINUED TO RISE...AND WATER 

WAS OVERFLOWING THE DAM ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE LAKE. US-2 AND 

M-28 WERE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. AUTHORITIES ARE ALSO CONCERNED 

ABOUT THE POSSIBLE FAILURE OF THE MC DONALD CREEK DAM ON MC DONALD 

CREEK UPSTREAM OF RAMSAY...WHICH IS WEST OF WAKEFIELD.



IN ADDITION TO THE SPECIFIC FLOODING MENTIONED ABOVE...ADDITIONAL 

FLOODING WAS OCCURRING ON MANY OF THE STREAMS THROUGH GOGEBIC 

COUNTY. MORE THAN 20 ROADS ARE CLOSED OR SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED DUE 

TO THE CURRENT HIGH WATER LEVELS. THESE ROADS ARE LOCATED ALONG THE 

FOLLOWING STREAMS: BLACK RIVER...WHITNEY CREEK...JACKSON CREEK...MUD 

CREEK...LITTLE BLACK CREEK...POWDER MILL CREEK...TROUT 

BROOK...SPRING CREEK...WELCH CREEK...SIEMANS CREEK...AND MAC VICHIE 

CREEK. IN ADDITION...A 40 FOOT WASHOUT WAS REPORTED ON EAST SHORE 

ROAD NEAR LAKE GOGEBIC.



RESIDENTS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN GOGEBIC COUNTY...SPECIFICALLY 

THOSE IN MARENISCO...WAKEFIELD...AND RAMSAY...SHOULD SEEK HIGHER 

GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT DRIVE CARS THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. STAY 

TUNED TO DEVELOPMENTS BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR 

FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET.



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