Month: May 2014

MnDOT Bicycle System Input Session

MnDOT StatewideBicycle System Input Session

Open House Tonight

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is developing a Statewide Bicycle System Plan to identify a statewide system of bicycle routes, improve existing facilities, and refine its bicycle planning process.

Public Meeting
6PM – 7PM
Thursday, May 29
EGF City Hall, 600 DeMers Avenue

Online at: www.mndot.gov/bike

Red River of the North at Grand Forks

Correlating stage and discharge with photos.  A work in progress.

Data are from the gage at Red River of the North on Sorlie Bridge.  Photos are in order of stage height, increasing.

Stage Red River/Red Lake River Confluence Downtown/Mt. Haga Riverside Dam
16 ft  

IMG_0435

Gage height ~16.2 ft, no discharge available.  2011-12-10

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Gage height ~16.3, discharge ~2000 cfs.  2009-09-25

IMG00268

Gage height ~16.5 ft, no discharge available.  2011-12-05.

River Dam-2 in GF, ND

Gage height ~16.9 ft, discharge ~3100 cfs.  2008-06-04.
17 ft

Red Lake River Dam 3/13

Gage height ~17 ft, no discharge available.  2010-03-13.

The grand forks

Gage height ~17 ft, discharge ~3300 cfs.  2012-06-28.

Zip

Gage height ~17.4 ft, discharge 3700 cfs.  2010-09-04.

  
18 ft      
19 ft      
20 ft      
21 ft

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Stage ~21.8 ft, discharge ~10,100 cfs.  2014-05-23.

    
22 ft      
23 ft      
24 ft      
25 ft      
26 ft

2014-05-09 12.32.37

Gage height ~26.0 ft, discharge 17,800 cfs.

    
26.5 ft  

East Grand Forks bike path under Sorlie bridge is underwater.

  
27 ft

2014-05-08 14.02.32

Gage height ~27.25 ft, discharge 19,000 cfs.

    
28 ft      
29 ft      
30 ft      
31 ft      
32 ft  

Old Rail Bridge Pivot

Gage height ~32 ft, no discharge available.  2009-03-23.

  
33 ft      
34 ft  

“East Grand Forks…4th St underpass at Gateway Drive (HWY 2) closes” (NWS).