flood stage

He said I should see the river in the spring, at flood stage.

The river rose to about two feet above flood stage, but it had not reached expected record levels.

On August 14, it passed flood stage and continued to rise.

While the new bridge does, in fact, remain above water at flood stage, its approaches do not.

One week ago, heavy rains had pushed the river far above flood stage.

During the second week of June, river levels rose to near flood stage before yet again beginning their slow recession.

The flood stage for the urban waterways is 5.7 feet.

The same river also rose above flood stage in Belvidere.

Passions run past flood stage here when Republicans think they have a shot at winning an important vote.

Chief Marchette tells me the river's already at flood stage.

Several streets were washed out, and rivers rose above flood stage.

"Lower flood stages because the river is scouring its bottom."

And water far above flood stage would be backed up against the levee for weeks.

Some authorities predict it could be weeks before the river falls below flood stage.

However, the outflow was still expected to significantly increase river levels already at major flood stage.

The fact is, even if we turned off the rain right now, we'd be up above flood stage in most places well into August."

Water levels fluctuate by several feet from their low point in the summer to winter/spring flood stage.

The flood stage measurements are given as a height above or below the zero level.

The area forms a water divide, more dramatically at regional flood stage.

Neither enters the river proper, except in extreme flood stage.

Elsewhere in the Midwest, water levels surged past flood stage.

All-day rains from earlier in the week had sent the river into flood stage.

"The flood stage is where the river is out of its bank.

Flood stages vary slightly at each of the monitoring stations.

Rivers: minor flooding is expected at this level, slightly above flood stage.