Lake level timeline announced
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Lake Pend Oreille will remain at summer pool through Sept. 18, after which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start a gradual drawdown until …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Lake Pend Oreille will remain at summer pool through Sept. 18, after which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start a gradual drawdown until …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Lake Pend Oreille is projected to reach summer pool next week, according to data from the Northwest River Forecast Center.
Summer pool — or the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started a controlled refill of Lake Pend Oreille at the beginning of April and is on track to have …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited North Idaho Wednesday to share lake operation plans and their tentative predictions for what winter will …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Lake Pend Oreille reached summer pool on June 24. Measured at the Hope gauge, the lake’s summer height will hover between 2,062 and 2,062.5 …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Lakes Commission announced this week that the Army Corps of Engineers will begin dropping the lake level for the winter.
In a draw-down process …
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