PRIEST LAKE WATER LEVEL / MAY 30, 2008

Updated May  30, 2008 to be updated again Monday, June 2.

Priest Lake water level is presently 1 - foot  10 - inches above summer level, expected to stay above summer level for the following week and may vary somewhat up or down. Source - Avista

© pecky cox foto

We found this big log floating in the middle of the lake at Luby Bay on Wednesday night around 5PM.  BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN BOATING THESE DAYS.  Pick up debris.  Thank you.

We're in Outlet, where the river is running high and fast. Last Saturday,
Several large logs came blasting through the river, and included with them was..... a 50 gallon cast iron water heater (circa 1940), that promptly got hung up on the largest rock in the river. Within 24 hours, the water rose fast enough to release the water heater, which then took off racing for the dam. Not a good thing... Peter lasso'd it and drug it into shore, it took three guys to wrestle it up on the beach, because it was so heavy (and full of water.)

That water heater would have caused major damage if not death if a boat hit it going full speed. I don't even want to speculate how something like that got into the lake.

Posted by: Donna Herak Bock | 05/31/2008 at 08:45 AM

Comments

[Pecky Cox]

Donna Herak,
Would you please call me? 25-20
Thank you,
Pecky

[David]

Thank you for posting this. It is very helpful for those of us that are away during the week and trying to keep tabs on shore station and dock issues as the water rises.