Carpio Residents Experience Flooding
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| 4/14/2009 |
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| Water pouring down a river is becoming more of a common thing around North Dakota this spring. With nearly record snow fall this winter and temperatures quickly rising the snow is melting quickly. The Des Lacs river has already caused flooding problems in Carpio. Brad Sullivan`s basement began flooding early Monday morning while he was sleeping. Tuesday Sullivan got the relief he was looking for when the water stopped pouring into his house. "Water started coming up and once it came up fast to begin and finally got around the side of the house leaking into the foundation," says Sullivan. Sullivan says his house is located on a low spot and this is not the first time this has happened to Sullivan. The first time his basement flooded was in 1969 then again in 1996. "In `96 we didn`t get pumping right-a-way and it got I suppose waist deep or chest deep down there before we finally got it under control," says Sullivan. Carpio Fire Chief Kalvin Myers and other residents helped make sure Sullivan did not have a repeat of 1996 by setting up two water pumps. "He had a sump pump in there and then we set up another pump that was a three-inch line and we kept it all down," says Myers When the water finally stopped rising Monday the city moved quickly to prevent the water from reaching other homes. "The city they came down took a bobcat and dug across the front of the house to drain it all down the best we could and the ground soaked up the rest of it," says Sullivan. "The water started going down in the morning. We started pumping out the ditches around his house. Got all the water away from the house and it seems to be doing pretty good now," says Myers. Myers says the river appears to have dropped around a foot or two since it reached its peak. The coulees continue to have run-off from melting snow, and as long as things continue to progress at the current rate Myers believes the river can hold and run-off. "We`re OK right now. We got over 2000 sandbags ready if we need too. If we feel its going to come up again we can try to put them in place. Right now we`re just trying to hold off," says Myers. While Carpio will hold off on preparing for any other floods, this duck is just trying to hold on. Sullivan says city officials are talking about putting in a permanent dike behind his house about three or four feet that should prevent flooding in the future. The Des Lacs river has dropped in Carpio since reaching its crest giving residents a reason to believe they may have seen the worst. |
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