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Although Suwannee County and surrounding areas received historic and devastating inland flooding from the relentless rains delivered by Tropical Storm Debby, the areas around the middle and lower Suwannee and Santa Fe rivers didn’t see the numbers.
According to Suwannee River Water Management District senior professional engineer Megan Wetherington, one of the main reasons the middle and lower Suwannee and Santa Fe rivers did not reach flood stages in most places, is because two of the main tributaries didn’t receive very much rain.
The Alapaha and Withlacoochee rivers make up nearly 40 percent of the area that contributes to the Suwannee and Santa Fe rivers. Wetherington also said that almost 40 percent of the Suwannee Basin did not get significant rain fall.
“Unlike 2009, the dust was blowing here and the rivers were flooding. It was pretty crazy and it was because the Alapaha and Withlacoochee received 16 inches of rain, which caused flooding down here,” Wetherington said.
The hardest hit on the Suwannee River was at White Springs where it crested third on the historical list at 85.23 feet, just above major flood stage. It topped out on April 10, 1973, at 88.02 feet, and 11 years later, to the day, April 10, 1984, it crested at 85.40 feet.
Suwannee Springs on the Suwannee River crested at 70.27 feet, on June 30, just above major flood stage; it was the ninth highest crest measured at Suwannee Springs. The top three crests were 78.91 feet on April 12, 1973; second 78.38 feet on April 10, 1984; and third 77.39 feet on March 9, 1987.
The Suwannee River at Ellaville, Dowling Park and Branford did not even make it to the action stage.
The Santa Fe River at the US 129 bridge crested at 21.51 feet, 19th on the historic level. On April 12, 1948, that location topped at 34.19 feet. Their second and third highest crests were at 30.75 and 29.53 feet in 1973 and 1998, respectively.
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