LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – With rain showers possible on Sunday, the National Weather Service is keeping a flood warning in effect for Lake County.
Clear Lake reached flood stage – 9 feet Rumsey – early Friday morning, and by early Sunday the lake was measured at 9.34 feet Rumsey, according to a US Geological Survey gauge.
In addition to the flood warning, the National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for the county based on forecasts of snow in higher elevations.
Clear Lake is at flood stage for the first time in 13 years.
The lake has pushed up over the seawall at Lakeport's Library Park, where the encroaching waters are being held back by aqua dams the city installed late last week. In Clearlake, Redbud Park's docks were partially swamped.
Elsewhere, creeks and streams are running high, and the rain filled up Boggs Lake.
Releases from Cache Creek Dam in the south county were at 3,860 cubic feet per second early Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey.
Clear Lake is forecast to hit 9.5 feet Rumsey by Monday morning, according to Lake County Water Resources.
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