City News This Week with Brian Newton & Bob Flittie

Bob Flittie contributed this report
FREMONT – Saturday early morning flooding along the Platte near Fremont was a bit of a surprise. Now the Weather Service has issues a new Flood Warning for the Platte along the Dodge and Saunders County borders, affecting areas from the State Lakes to Fremont.
The new warning was prompted by a surge of water coming from the Loup River entering the Platte upstream and headed for the Fremont area. During Bob Flittie’s visit with City Administrator Brian Newton, he described where the waters had gotten into:

 
Newton said to look west from the Highway-77 bridge to see the ice jam:

 
Newton advised that this flooding is NOT like that of 2919:

 
And Newton described what he called “the choke point” impeding the ice flow… and past attempts to break up other ice jams:

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