With the Corps of Engineers releasing 8,000 cfs of water from Milford Lake and only 650 cfs coming into the lake the lake level continues to drop about one foot everyday.

As of Monday morning the lake level was at 1149.57, which is about five feet higher than average.

RJ Harms, Corps of Engineers Project Manager at Milford Lake explained they are expected to continue releasing 8,000 cfs through Thursday,”we’ll be only a couple of feet high by then, and so our 4th of July looks pretty good actually.”

As the water continues to go down and uncovers various boat ramps and campgrounds across the lake the clean up work begins.

“Wakefield probably has the most up there, they have about the flattest campsites. So there’s several piles of debris and driftwood and things that they’ve got pushed up. I think that the State Park and our campgrounds really weren’t impacted all that much, so we just had a little bit of cleanup.”

Harms did say that they are currently adding gravel to some of their lower lying sites and smoothing those out.

Overall Harms said that he is expecting to have a very successful 4th of July Holiday at the Lake with large crowds. He said that with both Tuttle Creek and Lake Perry suffering from high water Milford Lake may see more campers this year.

He added that fireworks will not be allowed to be shot off on Corps of Engineers property during the 4th of July Holiday. He advised campers at other campgrounds to check with the property managers before firing any fireworks off this week.