Water Level

Is the water level starting to drop? How much higher than normal is the water level now?

Short answer, No.. Its not supposed to crest until mid June. When it actually happens depends on Mother Nature. Its very high right now. I’d guess 5-6ft.

@Grubson was just up there over memorial & its still rising, although its slowed a bit from a few weeks ago.

The water is starting to come down. It’s going to take a while though. It looks to be dropping about .5-1″ every day. The lakes are still about 5ft above what normal full pool would be.

grubson wrote:

The water is starting to come down. It’s going to take a while though. It looks to be dropping about .5-1″ every day. The lakes are still about 5ft above what normal full pool would be.

Wow that will take a while. Thanks for the update!

There is some video of the Dam at Kettle Falls. Thats the discharge from Kab & Namakan into Rainy. It’s spectacular the amount of water. You should be able to google it.

Dutchboy wrote:

There is some video of the Dam at Kettle Falls. Thats the discharge from Kab & Namakan into Rainy. It’s spectacular the amount of water. You should be able to google it.

Dutchboy – I have seen that video all over social media, that is a tremendous amount of water running through there!

https://www.weather.gov/dlh/RainyRiverBasin
As of June 8:

*Namakan Lake (and Kabetogama Lake) level is 1122.4 ft (342.10m), 22 inches (56 cm) above the peak level reached in 2014 and 6 inches below the 1916 peak. The level of Namakan Lake is expected to fall by about 7 to 11 inches (17-27 cm) between June 8 and June 15. The rate of the lake level falling will
continue to gradually increase each day barring additional heavy rainfall.

● Rainy Lake level is 1113.2 ft (339.3m), 22 inches (56 cm) above the 2014 peak and 3 inches above the (now previous) record set in 1950 (1112.95 ft). The level of Rainy Lake is expected to rise by 1 to 2 inches (2-6cm) between June 8 and June 15. Beyond this, Rainy Lake will continue to rise at a slow
rate, but a peak is unlikely before mid June.

Went down to the Ash River Trail today. Water was noticeably lower than a week ago. Still high, but it’s headed the right direction.

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When we arrived at our campsite on 6/11 the water was 2′ above the dock. when we left on 6/17 the water dropped 8″ or so. That sure was a curve ball for fishing.