North English River reaches 30 ft

The north fork of the English River reached the 30 foot range overnight, flooding bottom farmground and threatening Kalona.This is the highest the river has been since we purchased the farm three years ago.

Farm runoff endangered the shed at the acreage but came up a couple of feet from reaching it. With 4+ inches of rain on Monday, it took a lot of backtracking on my part after reaching closed bridges and washed out gravel roads.

I put my back to the shovel to dig ditches to drain standing water on the trees, shed and newly planted asparagus bed. After battling sump pump issues at the homestead on the Iowa River, it has been a long couple of days.