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Most flooded rivers receding
by Outspoken on Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:24 am
Most flooded rivers receding
By Julia Bayly
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
FORT KENT, Maine - Maine residents got a break Tuesday from the heavy rainstorms that pounded parts of the state over the weekend - but the water lingered.
With the ground already saturated in many places, the water had to go somewhere. By early Tuesday morning some of Maine’s rivers and streams were reporting levels 12 feet above where they were just 24 hours earlier, according to Mark Turner, service hydrologist with the National Weather Service Office in Caribou.
Turner said that in the headwaters of the Allagash and St. John River watershed, the water level went from 5.5 feet on Friday, Aug. 1, to 19.1 feet Tuesday morning.
In the 72-hour period through Tuesday afternoon, rainfall totals in Aroostook County ranged from 5.3 inches in Wytopitlock to nearly 5 inches in the St. John Valley.
Central Aroostook County saw up to 2 inches, while portions of Hancock and Penobscot counties dealt with up to 4 inches of rain in some spots.
"All the rivers have mostly crested and are starting to go down," Turner said. The exceptions are the Fish and St. Francis rivers in the St. John Valley.
"Those are fed out of the lakes, and they take longer to go up and to come down," Turner said.
In Washburn in Aroostook County, the Aroostook River rose from 4.5 feet to 6.49 feet, and in Masardis it went from 5 feet to 9.25 feet. The Mattawamkeag River rose from 7 feet to 10.45 feet.
In Washington County, the Narraguagus River at Cherryfield rose from less than 8 feet to 10.83 feet, while the Penobscot River at West Enfield in Penobscot County went from 4.5 feet to 7.49 feet.
Maine is well on its way to breaking precipitation records this year, Turner said.
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By Julia Bayly
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
FORT KENT, Maine - Maine residents got a break Tuesday from the heavy rainstorms that pounded parts of the state over the weekend - but the water lingered.
With the ground already saturated in many places, the water had to go somewhere. By early Tuesday morning some of Maine’s rivers and streams were reporting levels 12 feet above where they were just 24 hours earlier, according to Mark Turner, service hydrologist with the National Weather Service Office in Caribou.
Turner said that in the headwaters of the Allagash and St. John River watershed, the water level went from 5.5 feet on Friday, Aug. 1, to 19.1 feet Tuesday morning.
In the 72-hour period through Tuesday afternoon, rainfall totals in Aroostook County ranged from 5.3 inches in Wytopitlock to nearly 5 inches in the St. John Valley.
Central Aroostook County saw up to 2 inches, while portions of Hancock and Penobscot counties dealt with up to 4 inches of rain in some spots.
"All the rivers have mostly crested and are starting to go down," Turner said. The exceptions are the Fish and St. Francis rivers in the St. John Valley.
"Those are fed out of the lakes, and they take longer to go up and to come down," Turner said.
In Washburn in Aroostook County, the Aroostook River rose from 4.5 feet to 6.49 feet, and in Masardis it went from 5 feet to 9.25 feet. The Mattawamkeag River rose from 7 feet to 10.45 feet.
In Washington County, the Narraguagus River at Cherryfield rose from less than 8 feet to 10.83 feet, while the Penobscot River at West Enfield in Penobscot County went from 4.5 feet to 7.49 feet.
Maine is well on its way to breaking precipitation records this year, Turner said.
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