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PROJECT ALERT NOTICE (SD) SD Flooding Black Hills Area

Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 09:27:58 EDT

Summary: Heavy rainfall in the Black Hills area with predicted thunderstorms later today and tonight have crews out repairing flood warning gages and verifying high flows

Flooding is occurring in SD and is considered MINOR at this time. The areas with the most significant flooding are the Battle Creek, Spring Creek, Rapid Creek, and Boxelder Creek basins. WY15, no damages or fatalities. The USGS SD Office has dispatched 2 field staff to support high water data collection. In addition, 1 office staff is supporting the flood response. Contacts have been made with local National Weather Service and Emergency Management. These contacts were primarily to give streamgage status updates.

Efforts are focusing on flood-warning gages where 2 gages are reporting erroneous data and 4 are currently above flood stage.

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