{"id":1150,"date":"2026-08-28T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:35:26","slug":"weekend-update-8-28-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/weekend-update-8-28-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update 8\/28\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current river temperature is 74\u00b0.<br>Current river level is 4.25. At Latham.<br>During extreme drought, I have seen it go as low as 3.8<br>The flow rate at Rockton is 1.5 million gallons of water per minute.<br>As a reference in April, when we had the high water event, we were at 9 million gallons of water per minute.<br>Boats are still having no problem coming out of sports core.&nbsp; Just stay away from the peninsula slide that we have marked with shallow signs.<br>I remember as a kid having a drink called the green river. At the high crest bowling alley.<br>The conditions have been ideal this summer for growing algae on lake koshkonong<br>With the extremely warm temperatures we had plus the lack of water turnover, it was inevitable.<br>This has happened many times over the decades.<br>I was told Lake Summerset is also experiencing a heavy algae Bloom the past month.<br>On the river, the problem is a little more noticeable from sportscore down to the dam.<br>This is due to the lake effect of the dam slowing down the current and making it more noticeable.<br>You can see the green hue of water flowing over the spillway.<br>Fingers crossed we get some much needed rainfall to try and flush this downstream.<br>Tonight is the last city market downtown. So if you&#8217;ve procrastinated like me, it&#8217;s our last chance.<br>The ski Bronx have a show tonight, and then one next Wednesday and Friday to close out their season at Shorewood park.<br>I had a nice talk with karen from hoo haven, with a pickle the pelican update.<br>Pickle is not as grumpy and is eating like a pig.<br>Karen said the red snapper is his favorite food of choice.<br>With him eating on his own, she is able to put his meds in the fish. So he doesn &#8216;t even know.<br>He has started getting along with Charlie. Their resident pelican.<br>The infection on his wing seems to be healing nicely.<br>When the two pelicans are out running around, charlie flaps his wings when he&#8217;s running, but he cannot fly. That&#8217;s why he is there.<br>Pickles wing is probably still a little sore, so he doesn &#8216;t flap his wings around much when he runs around, I was told.<br>The two pelicans can swim in the indoor protected pond at hoo haven.<br>They also enjoy their quiet time in the evening together.<br>Their resident Turkey vulture that is 32 years old doesn&#8217;t seem to have a problem with pickle.<br>The vet will be back out again next week to recheck Pickle&#8217;s wing and make sure he&#8217;s still moving in a forward direction.<br>Karen informed me they are in desperate need of a lot of old towels. If you have any around that you would be interested in donating to their facility.<br>Hopefully many of you enjoy this feel good story of pickle the pelican.<br>And if that is the case, please make a donation to hoo haven so they can continue to do great things for the wildlife In our area.<br>Don&#8217;t let the Green River scare you. It&#8217;s still beautiful for boating.<br>As always, practice defensive driving and let&#8217;s all make it back to the dock safe and sound<br>.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current river temperature is 74\u00b0.Current river level is 4.25. At Latham.During extreme drought, I have seen it go as low as 3.8The flow rate at Rockton is 1.5 million gallons of water per minute.As a reference in April, when we had the high water event, we were at 9 million&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/weekend-update-8-28-26\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Weekend Update 8\/28\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockriverhomeowners.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}