{"id":1036,"date":"2026-05-04T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:40:46","slug":"river-update-5-4-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/river-update-5-4-26\/","title":{"rendered":"River Update 5\/4\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Current river temperature 59\u00b0.<br>Current river level 7.5 at Latham.<br><br>There was a gate adjustment at the dam today to rein in water levels&nbsp; draining downtown.<br><br>Before everybody throws a temper tantrum, the dam is not designed for flood control.<br>There is a $100000 permanent floating dock at Davis park that would have suffered damage. Had this not occurred.<br>To raise the water, almost 2 feet downtown caused the water in Machesney Park at the Latham Gauge&nbsp; to go up 2 inches.<br><br>We will continue to see river levels decrease because the pec and sugar river flow rates continues to fall.<br>The only way our river can continue to go lower is with the faucet from freeport and wisconsin continuing to decrease.<br><br>We spent all day cleaning and marking debris on the river.<br><br>We&#8217;re on the recovery phase of the moderate flood that we just went through.<br>We are very fortunate that mother nature spared us more rain.<br>We did much better than river residents on the fox and Wolf River this spring.<br><br>The weather is not ideal for boating&nbsp; accept for today, so that should give area residence more time for their properties to dry out.<br><br>There is quite a bit of damage suffered to river residents that got clobbered by seventy foot trees during the onslaught of mother nature cleaning our drainage basin.<br><br>We&#8217;ll all get through this together and have a great summer.<br><br>Enclosed are some of the worst hit river residence And municipal boat docs.<br><br>For the record, I did only see 2 jet skis and 2 fishing boats out besides us today.<br><br>With the gates on the dam, still 65% open, the current is still treacherous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current river temperature 59\u00b0.Current river level 7.5 at Latham. There was a gate adjustment at the dam today to rein in water levels&nbsp; draining downtown. Before everybody throws a temper tantrum, the dam is not designed for flood control.There is a $100000 permanent floating dock at Davis park that would&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/river-update-5-4-26\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;River Update 5\/4\/26&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}