Lake Alvin to drain 10 feet, spillway repairs begin

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LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) – The process to drain down Lake Alvin and prepare for the spillway reconstruction project starts July 15.

The water level will be lowered by 10-15 feet over the next week and a half, said Adam Kulesa, the planning and development administrator for the Game Fish and Parks, in a July 9 Lincoln County Commission meeting. Kulesa said the drain down of the lake will accommodate more room for overflow water once the spillway starts being removed.

“There’s an added level of protection we need to do with the design and construction limits to make sure we can account for the potential for any kind of rainfall event so we don’t have something catastrophic happen,” he said.