High water becoming apparent at Sunset Marina

Thursday, March 31
The water was only up about a half-foot, but it's spreading out more around the marina. The road to the lower parking lot for the 100 and 200 docks has been closed and the water is up eight feet beyond the concrete parking bumpers. A pair of geese that have been hanging around the area, rarely more than a yard apart, seem worried. Maybe they had a nest on the lower land that now is flooded.

At the lift well the water is now getting closer to the beams that support the wooden ramps and the ramp to the 300 Dock has assumed a definite pyramid shape. Boats being launched are so high when they settle into the water that skippers don't have to use the stairs down to the river, but step up to the bow.

At the beginning of the walking path about 20 feet of asphalt are covered; at the north end of Lake Potter the water is up well into the parking lot and the lot for the north ramp has been closed. The parking lots for the east ramp also are closed and water winds around the roads. The high water has arrived.