April 11

It was a beautiful day today. Temp. around 60 degrees. This afternoon students in grades 7 - 12 traveled to Neche to fill sandbags there. Due to ice jams the water has risen rapidly in the Neche area.

The Pembina flood committee met today. Things have slowed down, we're in "wait and see" mode. Dike patrols will begin when the river reaches 48 feet.  (It's at 45.7 feet today)

This large group of students made short work of the sand piles.

There was a little fun mixed in with the work for these two.

                                                                                                         

April 10

It's raining a little here today. The Red is at 45 ft. There was a Tele-Conference with the NWS this afternoon. They are expecting warmer, drier weather for the next week.

The Pembina River at Neche is suppose to reach 21-22 ft. sometime this week and the Red River at Pembina is expected to reach 52 - 54 feet by the last week in April.

Saturday April 9

Ken & Laura Norby, Greg Koropatnicki, Tom Koropatnicki, Pat Burton, Ron Monette, Gary Helland, Rich Margerum, Wayne Schafer, Pat Misson, Lisa Plante, Ryan & Nancy Thompson, George Christenson, Ron Fritz, Joe Defoe, Del Huttunen, Dan Stanhope, John Feldman, and Jon Kalka showed up this morning to help put in the wing closures on the dike.

Twamley Construction continued to put in the earth closure on the east side of the Pembina River Bridge.

The water on the Pembina River gauge shows 45 ft. The reading on the Red River is 44.24 ft.

April 7

We had a little bit of rain today. We drove around town after work to take some pictures. The river is at 43.5 ft tonight.

A tree is caught on the Pembina River bridge on it's way north.

Twamley construction digging dirt and clay from the "borrow pit" in South Pembina.












Hauling dirt and clay  to close the road at the north end of 3rd St. The road will be left open for a few more days.

The fired department's air boat was recently painted and is ready for service.

April 6

Today the NB Pembina students and staff, city employees and a couple volunteers filled almost 4000 sandbags in a little over 2 hours. The bags were then moved to a warehouse for dry storage until they are needed. It was a beautiful day to be outside! The crew did a great job!

Sandbag Central on the school parking lot.

Everyone had their job.

Finishing off the pallet.

Deanna and Lisa were our lift operators.

A little more than half done.

The river was at 41.85 ft. this afternoon. The flood committee will meet again Friday afternoon at 4:30.

April 3

 We got a call today to put some additional sandbags on the culvert near the boat dock. (The dock is to the left in the first picture).

We had some rain last night and snow this morning. The temp. this afternoon was 33 degrees so the snow is melting and the streets are slushy.

April 2

Today 10 men worked at the golf course removing the covers from the greens and moving carts, mowers and equipment to safer ground.

The weatherman is predicting snow for us tomorrow. We're waiting to see how much we'll get and wondering if spring will ever get here.

Ken gathered this information about past flood levels so I thought I'd share.

Flood Crests

Year	Date	Height	River
1916		47.83	Pembina
1948		49.8	Pembina
1950	May	53.13	Pembina
1965		47.35	Pembina
1966		51.3	Pembina
1969	4/26	49.7	Pembina
1970	5/2	46.55	Pembina
1971	4/15	40	Pembina
1972	4/24	40.2	Pembina
1974	4/28	48.5	Pembina
1975	5/8	46.4	Pembina
1976	4/8	41.5	Pembina
1978	4/18	49.05	Pembina
1979	5/1	53.8	Pembina
1989	4/23	45.95	Red
1993	4/13	35.45	Red
1993	8/16	40.73	Red
1994	4/6	38.5	Red	39	Pembina
1995	3/31	46.49	Red	47.1	Pembina
1996	4/2	24.75	Red
1996	4/30	51.47	Red	52.2	Pembina
1996	5/27	44.85	Red
1997	4/26	54.95	Red	55.7 *	Pembina
1997	7/10	34.95	Red	*guess - river over gauge
1998	5/12	39.63	Red
1999	4/13	49.67	Red
2000	7/5	37.05	Red
2000	11/14	35.6	Red
2001	4/25	49.43	Red
2002	6/18	42.18	Red
2002	6/30	39	Red
2002	7/19	37.79	Red
2003			Red
2004	4/7	46.64	Red
2005	4/9	44.12	Red
2006	4/15	51.45	Red
2007	3/9	37.2	Red
2007	6/29	40.48	Red
2008	4/13	30.85	Red
2008	10/22	29.57	Red
2009	4/16	52.6	Red
2010	3/31	49.5	Red