As of 12 noon Monday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has increased the outflow at Milford Lake from 3,000 cfs to 5,000 cfs.

RJ Harms, Corps of Engineers Project Manager at Milford Lake explained that the call came in just before noon to increase the outflow.

“Inflows continue to drop, and right now at Clay Center we’re showing about 1,200 coming in. We’re hopeful that we’ll start dropping maybe half a foot a day here early on and get that going this week and start seeing the lake come down,” said Harms.

The lake did drop half of a foot over the weekend after the Corps of Engineers increased the outflow Friday to 3,000 cfs, up from 25 cfs.

Currently the lake is eight and a half feet high which has closed portions of campgrounds across the lake. Harms is hopeful with the increased outflow the lake will drop enough to expose those campgrounds in time to dry them out and prepare them for the 4th of July Holiday.

When asked about any concerns about Blue Green Algae Harms replied,”we haven’t seen a whole lot yet.”

“We were up around the lake a little bit this morning and the north end of the lake looks a lot like Tuttle Creek right now, we’ve got a lot of brown water up there at the north end of the lake from all of the inflow. We haven’t seen any algae up in that area.”

Harms did note that he did see some algae in the Madison Creek Cove north of the town of Milford,”nothing really to worry about yet.”

This time last year the lake had already experience two or three impacts of blue-green algae. Harms credits the amount of rain the lake has received and the ability to make releases as possibilities for why the blue-green algae has not had any impacts to this point.