Towner Ranch Still Battling Water
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| 4/21/2009 |
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| While most towns in the area are no longer concerned about the possibility of floods, some residents in Towner are still battling the flood waters. "I`ve never seen it this bad," says Justin Kongslie, McHenry County Rancher "I suppose we`ve lost 20 miles of pasture on this river now and we lost all our alfalfa," says Lynn Kongslie, McHenry County Rancher. Kongslie will now have to buy 3,000 hay bales to have enough feed for his herd. Fences will need to be replaced, trees will need to be picked up and the water will have to be pumped from portions of the land. The cost to fix all the problems is more than Lynn would like to think about. "It will take a month to two months to clean up. Water has to recede first then its got to be dry enough to get to a problem area," says Justin Kongslie. While things have not been going well for the Kongslie ranch over the past week, the Lake Darling Dam closing Monday was some much needed good news. "That would have been really devastating for us on this end of the river if they would have gave us another couple thousand CFS," says Lynn Kongslie. The home of Lynn`s and Justin`s father home is no longer able to be reached by car. Over the weekend a boat was used to get their father out of the home and to higher land. "Water was just about an inch or two inches from going in the window. There`s a sump pump in the basement that`s keeping the water out," says Justin Kongslie. Despite about a two foot drop in the water level on the ranch since Sunday, the Kongslies` expect the water to rise again because of runoff from the Butte area. "Right now we`re hoping not for a big rise again but there will be one more spurt of water out of the watering creek area," says Lynn Kongslie. Even if water levels continue to drop it could be the middle of May until the land completely dries. |
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