Monsoon Season in Round Lake

Here are some of the cool stuff you get in your email boxes in the middle of the night...I got updates throughout the night on this stuff as did our Public Works department who were called out at 1am yesterday (nice job guys!). I am also including a few pictures of some of the worst places for the flooding.

From: Glenn XXXXXXX Acting Flood Operations Manager
August 7, 2007 - 9:00 A.M.

SMC has moved the flood alert level to "Orange" , which means:"Flooding Extremely Likely or Moderate Flooding Occurring" -

The OM sets the Threat Alert Level to orange when the NWS issues a Flood Warning for locations within Lake County and moderate flooding forecast, or when the OM receives reports of flooding. The OM may also set the level to orange when moderate flooding is known to occur that was not predicted by the NWS.

A Flash Flood Warning for Lake County was issued early this morning by the National Weather Service. There have been reports this morning of road closures due to high standing water at Routes 41 & 176 and Route 41 & Deerpath Road. In Grayslake, the Police Department reported extensive street flooding with a foot of standing water in some locations. Unofficial rainfall totals from SMC rain gauges over the last 24 hours include several locations that received 3 or more inches: Lake Forest-3.3", Gages Lake - 3.1" and Round Lake Park - 3.0."


The NWS is forecasting some additional rainfall for our area today (90% chance), but significant rainfall is not anticipated. SMC will continue to monitor reports of local flooding in Lake County.

At 7:30 AM this morning, the Des Plaines River at Russell Road and Gurnee was at 3.78' and 5.42' above datum, respectively - the flood stage at both locations is 7.0'. SMC will continue to monitor the river levels.

Our Road closing at 5:30am yesterday were as follows:
Sunset (by GM Sign)
Sycamore@Midland
Linden@Midland
Sycamore@Linden
Midland@Sycamore,
Midland@Linden,
Sycamore@Linden,
Dorothy@S. Bernice