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Investigators watch as water flows
over the stressed Mukwonago dam during recent flooding
earlier this month. With the Mukwonago dam now stable, state
officials will assess the structure.
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TOWN OF MUKWONAGO - With the Mukwonago dam stable, work is now
going to be done to assess the damage, officials said Tuesday at a
joint town and village protective services committee meeting.
Mukwonago Fire Chief Jeff Rolfe said the dam is now being
drained, which is causing Phantom Lake to be several inches under
its normal level. The dam is being drained to allow one side to be
shut down, so in the next few days dam experts from the state’s
Department of Natural Resources can assess it, he said.
Rolfe said there may be some Federal Emergency Management Agency
funds coming to build concrete spillways on both sides of the dam,
in case spillage occurs again. There used to be spillways, but the
DNR requested they be taken out, he said.
"So there are some silver linings to what happened,"
Rolfe said.
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