Polk County officers lifted an evacuation order late Monday afternoon after injury to the Carter Lake dam prompted a flash flooding threat.
Earlier Monday, officers in the neighborhood roughly 100 miles northeast of Houston continued to pump water at Carter Lake as they assessed the injury to the lake’s dam that was found over the weekend.
At roughly 8:55 a.m. Monday, the Polk County Workplace of Emergency Administration stated that two high-volume pumps have been in use to decrease the lake’s water stage to under the broken part of the dam. In an announcement, the county stated that it could take as much as three days of pumping to totally uncover the extent of the injury.
The water stage had been lowered by roughly 1 foot as of Monday morning, and the county stated it was attempting to decrease it additional.
The dam is privately owned, and the county stated that the “house owners hope to start conversions with an engineering agency at the moment.”
At 10:29 p.m. Saturday, the Nationwide Climate Service issued a flash flood look ahead to the realm because of the doable failure of the dam. An evacuation order was additionally issued for the realm downstream.
As of Monday morning, the evacuation order was nonetheless in place, and the county was encouraging affected residents to keep away from the realm till additional discover. The Dunbar Fitness center Shelter at 1103 Dunbar Avenue in Livingston remained open and was receiving assist from the American Purple Cross.
The shelter was set to shut at 8 a.m. Tuesday, in response to emergency officers in Polk County.
