The images from the Fourth of July floods in the Hill Country are unforgettable. The Guadalupe River’s raging waters bowled over anything and everything in its path.

But Canyon Lake Dam intercepted the water, and even more destruction was adverted.

“On July 5th at 4:30 a.m., around 35,000 cubic feet per second (of water entered Canyon Lake),” Marcus Schimank said.

Schimank is the operations project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth district. He said it can take a day and half for water upstream to travel down to Canyon Lake.

Cranes Mill Park is where the Guadalupe enters into the reservoir.

Schimank said the lake’s water management team was on their post during the July flood, monitoring the speed of the flood as well as the weather and river conditions downstre

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