Milford Lake is about six feet beyond normal conservation pool level.

R. J. Harms, Milford Lake Corps of Engineers Project Operations manager, said a lot of water has been coming down the Republican River into the reservoir. “At one point we had about 15,000 cubic feet per second in the Republican River coming into Milford, so really over the weekend, starting on Thursday, Friday, and then over the weekend right now we’re at about six feet above normal. ”

Prior to that influx the Lake was up about two feet, meaning about four feet of water entered the Reservoir the latter part of last week.

There has been some impact in the Milford State Park area with water over walkways to a pair of public docks, and the Jet Ski Beach Road.

The Corps of Engineers, as of 2:30 p.m. Monday ( June 8 ) will be releasing 2,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Lake. They have been releasing only 25 cfs.  In recent days the Corps had to hold water in Milford Lake to prevent a problem downstream on the Missouri River in the Waverly, Missouri area.