The Russell County Emergency Management Office and the
Russell County Judge Executive’s Office received information on Tuesday,
February 11, 2020 from the US Army Corp of Engineers concerning a probability
of future rising water that could impact residents in the area of Ray Mann
Road, River View Drive, and Little Indian Drive below Wolf Creek Dam. Releases
are not anticipated to impact any other locations at this time. They are not
expecting these releases to be anything near last year’s flooding. Access for
residents in this location could be affected. There is a high probability that
this will happen in the coming days or weeks, so we want to assure the
residents in this area that we will keep them informed as we receive additional
information. Also, we will maintain a detour that was used last year during the
flooding that is located between Little Indian Drive and Kauffman Road off of
Ray Mann Road.
H.M. Bottom, Emergency Management Director, can be reached
at 270-585-1416 and Judge Executive Gary D. Robertson can be reached at
270-343-2112 or 270-566-3205.