Beautiful day in Lesterville

It was 60 degrees at 1pm and the sky was bright blue. We had over an inch of rain yesterday so the river is up, over the rocks at BRL and it is muddy again. I think that until all the silt is washed down to Clearwater Lake that each time we get a good rain the river will turn muddy. Pam and I drove up to the lower reservoir this afternoon. It is blue-green, no sign of silt in the water and the water coming out of the dam is clear. So at this point all the silt that is causing the river to look muddy is already in the river channel and is no longer coming from the lower reservoir. Six weeks have past since the upper reservoir breached and we have sixteen weeks (+ or -) until Memorial weekend so let's hope that things will look better by the time you all come back to Lesterville.

There was a truck from the Corps of Engineers parked on the East Fork Bridge on Hwy. 21 taking readings from the East Fork. During the public meeting in February maybe we will find out more about the condition of the river and projections for it in the future.