temporarily lower Mississippi River elevation near St. Anthony Falls

Thanks for posting this BK. Would be really interesting seeing what it looks like!

Fine by me!

I had trouble emailing to the address in public notice but got thru eventually.

Put in my vote for late fall, June is bad timing IMO for fish migrations and spawning, primarily channel cats that want to lock thru to the pool.

What does lowering that by 12′ do to the pools down stream. That would have to be dang near like a stream running through?

riverruns wrote:

What does lowering that by 12′ do to the pools down stream. That would have to be dang near like a stream running through?

It’s only pool 1, noone fishes there anyways. U of M rowing teams probably take up majority of boaters there?

Sure would concentrate all those fish……

Wouldn’t that be something down in a lower pool by us?

Deuces wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>riverruns wrote:</div>
What does lowering that by 12′ do to the pools down stream. That would have to be dang near like a stream running through?

It’s only pool 1, noone fishes there anyways. U of M rowing teams probably take up majority of boaters there?

Sure would concentrate all those fish……

Seems to be only the 1/2 mile stretch between the two dams. Not much happening in there anyway. They may even be able to divert the water around through the power-plants to keep flow. Not positive on that however.

Looks like it will be during the first week or so of October.

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https://parkconnection.org/blog/2020/9/30/rare-drawdown-mississippi-river

Here are some more details…..might have to try and check it out.

For those of us that will not see it in person, put on lots of pics please!!!

I wonder if riverruns is concerned about how the extra water will affect the pools below there.

https://www.fox9.com/news/rare-lowered-water-levels-on-mississippi-river-draws-the-curious-to-minneapolis?fbclid=IwAR2sERn3-RvDmsW4AtS2em68Ge0c9_jekoLUYUkOj_KUQYEpha07I-WaFq0

” Some come to the river out of curiosity, or, like 9-year-old Elsa Rismoen says, because her mom made her come.

“It smells horrible,” she said. “Now I feel like what a fish feels like.” ”

I haven’t been up that way for many years but I do recall my first visit up there on the water. As I was putting around my eyes starting to burn. Figured that was a good time to leave.

This link should be the start of a slide show of pictures of the draw down. I believe it only affected the stretch between the Upper and Lower St Anthony Falls locks.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/photos-rare-drawdown-of-the-mississippi-river-in-minneapolis-attracts-hundreds#&gid=ci02710a9fc0002437&pid=mississippi-river-1

I picked a horrible time to dump a body down there….