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The Penobscot River has risen four feet at Enfield in the last 24 hours. Many other rivers are also rising quickly. Please do not drive into moving water.
The Penobscot River has risen four feet at Enfield in the last 24 hours. Many other rivers are also rising quickly. Please do not drive into moving water.
The Piscataquis is 5,000 CFS above the previous all time high for April 27 and it continues to rise. The Penobscot's flow has doubled since Wednesday and is rising fast. There is still snow in the woods.
Last September 1, I walked on bone dry bedrock to the middle of the Piscataquis River where it runs under I-95. I took photos looking up at the bridges. I could have walked all the way across the river bed, but I just wanted the photos. That weekend I took photos of some culverts that were bone dry.
The East Branch of the Penobscot has crested near its record flow for the date. The Mattawamkeag River is at double its normal flow for this date and is rising vigorously. We are thankful that there are no ice jams. The river ice went out over a week ago.
Meanwhile, lakes are gradually beginning to open in northern Penobscot and Washington counties.
When a lake is half out and the wind changes, that whole ice sheet can move toward the area that is already open. Pay attention if you are fishing from your boat. You might not be able to get back to where you launched your boat. Even if you hike back to your vehicle and try to get around to where your boat is beached, you might not be able to get there because the camp roads are too muddy to travel. This happens to people every year.
Back around 1976, a friend and I canoed down a brook to Green Lake to fish for salmon. The south half of the lake was frozen over. The wind shifted out of the south and the warm breeze was most welcome. We noticed that the ice was moving toward us,but the fishing was good. the edge of the ice caught on a point and pivoted toward us. We paddled into a cove. When the ice got to where we had been, it did not stop It plowed into the beach like a bulldozer, got under the trees and bulldozed some large maples up and over. Then the sheet broke and the north half slid completely over the point If you figured a square mile of ice at 10 inches thick, the weight would be enormous. It doesn't just stop when it comes to an obstruction.
The Narraguagus has crested. It exceeded its all time high for the date by about 28%. The old record maximum flow was in 1979 at 20,200 CFS. The new record is 25,800 CFS.
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