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WATER LEVEL REPORT
by Tom Cox,
Chair, Water Level Committee
Due to light winter snows and spring rains, Ten Mile was considerably lower in May than it was last year at the same time. Walt Kane reported these 2002 levels, read from the DNR Gauge in Long Bay:
| Feb. 19 | 1379.14 | DNR reading - we have no comparable |
| April 10 | 1379.08 | Down 9.5" from May 1, 2001 |
| May 10 | 1379.26 | Down 7.3" from a year ago |
| May 14 | 1379.30 | Down 6.6" from a year ago |
| May 20 | 1379.24 | Down 8.3" from a year ago |
| May 28 | 1379.21 | Down 8.6" from a year ago |
Last year at this time we were heading for a June 14 reading of 1380.22', the highest level recorded since DNR began keeping formal records in 1973, and 8 inches higher than this year's May 20 reading. Assuming we won't see last year's heavy rains again this spring, we should enjoy more comfortable water levels this summer than last. In keeping with the the DNR study plan agreed to last summer, the 4" stop log (a steel I-beam) in the Birch Lake outlet structure has been in place all winter. It will stay in place at least another year to provide the DNR with data under a constant outlet structure configuration to create a hydrologic model of the water flows between Ten Mile and Birch Lakes through the Boy River.
