North Texas lakes are filled almost to the brim after recent intense rain events.
“All the levels are up when we look at them kind of regionally," said Philip Swift, Fort Worth City Marshal."When we’ve had so many back-to-back, there’s just nowhere for the water to go anymore; so, it doesn’t get absorbed into the ground, so it ends up running into lakes."
"We start running into issues with docks flooding and property damage and things of that nature. So, at that point, we’ll close the lake until we can get that water level down," Swift said. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they are closely monitoring all lakes in the metroplex. They said there is a lot of water flowing through the Trinity River right now and into the Gulf of Mexico.
However, the agency said there are still areas where a large amount of rain might require pumps to help mitigate the flood risk to urban areas.
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