http://www.stcloudtimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060730/NEWS01/107300028"River levels are typically lower in August, but the abnormally low precipitation this summer means the river flow has already hit an 18-year record low. Moving into what is usually another dry month has some experts worried....
Water conservation is particularly crucial now in St. Cloud, Minneapolis and St. Paul, because the cities get their water from the Mississippi River, the DNR Division of Waters warned last week....
On Thursday, the National Drought Mitigation Center declared that Central Minnesota had sunk in to an extreme drought, as have the northwestern and east central parts of the state.
As of Thursday morning, the river's flow was at 854 cubic feet per second (CFS)....the normal median flow is much faster — 6,000 CFS. "That's where the average flow should be at this time of year," he said."
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