Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Wakefield Water and electric foreman John Granato and his crew pump water out of the spillway at Sunday Lake Dam on Thursday to relieve some of the run-off water, hoping to stop it from surging back into the city of Wakefield. “We haven’t had to do this since 2002,” said Granato.
HURLEY — The Silver Street bridge was reopened to traffic Thursday afternoon as the water level on the Montreal River dropped substantially during the day.
With more than a foot of slushy snow falling on the Ironwood area, Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad said it was still a “wait and see game,” however.
Lt. Mike Rimkus of the Ironwood Public Safety Department said the water had gone down quite a bit in the east branch of the river at the Silver Street bridge.
A bridge inspector from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation arrived from Merrill to inspect the bridge’s s...
