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City Fire Chief/Emergency Manager, at a Ways and Means Committee meeting following tonight's Crookston City Council meeting, said that volunteers will likely start walking Crookston's levees early Tuesday morning, after he and a couple council members stroll the dikes tonight.
Due to the weekend rains, the Red Lake River in Crookston, which had dropped to almost 15 feet, started rising again. It was just under 20 feet tonight, and the latest National Weather Service hydrograph says it could reach 22 feet by Wednesday. Rock, who said the river in Thief River Falls and Highlanding crested earlier today, isn't convinced the river in town will keep rising. There's no ice to contend with any longer, either, but with warmer temperatures and the frost coming out of the town, thawed levees are more prone to sloughing, he told council members. "I don't want to get caught off guard," he said.
Dike walkers will work two at a time in three-hour shifts, if it's determined they're needed. No ward command posts are expected to be activated, and he same goes for the city's Emergency Operations Center at the police department. Supplies and information will be coordinated out of the fire department.
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