June 2008 Blog Posts (1)

Credit the recent and unprecedented heavy rains of the weekend for causing the outright collapse of Lake Delton this morning (Monday, 9 June) and its draining into the Wisconsin River by way of a freshet across saturated lowlands, in turn closing a part of County Road A. The Dell Creek Dam, which created Lake Delton in 1927, is still holding; however, the next big problem is what might happen if the Mirror Lake Dam downstream fails, in turn draining Mirror Lake and sending its waters into Lake… Continue