According to Steve Berg the Superintendent with the Dubois County Highway Department a few roads have been reopened since Saturday night. He says some roads may have debris such as gravel, mud, corn stalks, and limbs on them, so please be aware. Berg says that county highway crews are out again today cleaning things up and opening clogged culverts.
Roads re-opened today include:
Meridian Road South of State Road 162
St Anthony Road West South of Schnellville Road
County Road 225 South
County Road 850 South East of Ferdinand Road Northwest
County Road 75 West South of State Road 64
County Road 660 South East of County Road 75 West
County Road 50 West Between Old Road 64 & State Road 64
Currently as many as 26 county roadways and intersections are closed due to high water.
Rainfall totals of 6 and 19 hundreds of an inch of rain was measured at the Jasper Wastewater Treatment Plant with 3 and 31 hundreds of an inch documented on Saturday alone.
Dubois County Highway Engineer Brent Wendholt asks that the traveling public drive with care and caution.
Locally the St. Henry Fire Department rescued a driver Saturday night after their vehicle had become trapped from rushing flash flood waters.
Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a disaster emergency Saturday for 11 Indiana counties in response to widespread flooding and infrastructure damage caused by sustained heavy rainfall.
Among those 11 counties effected was Perry County here in Southwestern Indiana.
The disaster emergency declaration may be expanded to include other counties in the days ahead.
The National Weather Service says flooding is expected to last into at least the second week of March along the lower reaches of the Wabash and White Rivers. Rainfall amounts have are also being monitored by forecasters with the NWS as they report the state as a whole over this past weekend has seen as much as eight plus inches of rainfall, predominately in far southern Indiana. Rainfall over the state is 2 to 6 plus inches above normal.
The Indiana Department of Transportation says many state highways too numerous to mention individually have have been shut down due to flood waters. For a complete listing of state roads closed due to flood waters visit www.indot.carsprogram.org for a map and complete listing.
Below is a listing of Dubois County Roads closed by flooding.
| DUBOIS COUNTY ROADS IMPACTED BY FLOODING | |||||
| Date: | |||||
| Time: | 2/26/2018 8:22 | OPEN TO TRAFFIC | |||
| Date Closed | Date Opened | DISTRICT #1 | Water Feature | ||
| Township | Road Name | Point of Closure | |||
| Madison | CR 300 North | West of CR 350 West | Big Flat Area | ||
| Madison | CR 300 North | West of 800 West | Little Flat Creek | ||
| 2/23/2018 | Madison | CR 150 North | West of CR 750 West | Little Flat Creek | |
| 2/24/2018 | Madison | CR 150 North | Between 500 W & 600 W | Little Flat Creek | |
| 2/23/2018 | Madison | CR 875 West | South of CR 150 North | Little Flat Creek | |
| 2/23/2018 | Madison | CR 50 North | West of CR 750 West | Little Flat Creek | |
| 2/24/2018 | Madison | CR 800 West | South of 50 North – Lee Gress Flat | Little Flat Creek | |
| 2/18/2018 | Madison | CR 800 West | North of CR 300 South – River Bottoms | Patoka River | |
| Madison | CR 650 W | South of 100 South | Patoka River | ||
| 2/24/2018 | Madison | Division Road | East of CR 600 West | Patoka River | |
| 2/24/2018 | Madison | Stewart Road | Off of Division Road | Patoka River | |
| Madison | CR 450 W | North of Division Road | Patoka River | ||
| Madison | CR 450 W | At intersection with 490 W | Patoka River | ||
| 2/23/2018 | Madison | CR 620 West | Dillon Creek | Patoka River | |
| 2/17/2018 | Madison | CR 150 South | West of Old Huntingburg Road | Patoka River | |
| 2/17/2018 | Madison | Ell Creek Road | North of CR 400 South | Patoka River | |
| 2/23/2018 | Marion | CR 175 East | North of CR 300 North | Patoka River | |
| Boone | Portersville Bridge Rd | North of the Bridge in Daviess County | White River | ||
| Boone | Portersville Road West | East of CR 500 West | Rizzley Creek | ||
| Boone | Portersville Road West | Between 500 W & 600 W | White River | ||
| 2/23/2018 | Harbison | CR 600 North | East of Kellerville Road | Bottom Ground | |
| Boone | CR 700 North | East of Portersville Road | Mill Creek | ||
| Boone | Old Petersburg Road | North of SR 56 | Flat Creek Tributary | ||
| Columbia | Cuzco Road West | South of SR 56 | Davis Creek | ||
| 2/24/2018 | 02/25/18 | Columbia | Dubois – Cuzco Road | West of Cuzco Road South | Patoka River |
| 2/23/2018 | Columbia | Dubois Road North East | South of SR 56 | Davis Creek | |
| 2/24/2018 | Boone | CR 600 North | West of 200 West | Mill Creek | |
| Columbia | Cuzco Road North | In Town | Dillon Creek | ||
| 2/24/2018 | 02/24/18 | Columbia | Cuzco Road South | Near Dubois Cuzco Road | Dillon Creek |
| Date Closed | Date Opened | DISTRICT #2 | Water Feature | ||
| Township | Road Name | Point of Closure | |||
| 2/22/2018 | 02/26/18 | Bainbridge | Meridian Road | South of SR 162 | Straight River |
| 2/24/2018 | 02/26/18 | Marion | St Anthony Road West | South of Schnellville Road | Straight River |
| 2/23/2018 | Jackson | CR 230 South | East of SR 162 | Flat Creek | |
| Marion | Hall Creek Road | East of CR 400 East | Hall Creek | ||
| Marion | Santine Road | Between Schnellville Rd & Hall Creek Rd | Hall Creek | ||
| 2/24/2018 | Marion | CR 300 North | West of CR 175 East | Patoka River | |
| 2/25/2018 | Marion | CR 175 East | South of CR 300 North | Patoka River | |
| 2/25/2018 | Bainbridge | CR 190 North | North of Meridian Road | Patoka River | |
| 2/25/2018 | Bainbridge | Kellerville Road | North of Cathy Lane | Patoka River | |
| 2/25/2018 | 02/26/18 | Bainbridge | CR 225 South | Between WITZ Road and 130 West | Patoka River |
| Bainbridge | CR 400 West | Near Shiloh Road | Big Flat Area | ||
| Bainbridge | CR 400 North | Between US 231 and Kellerville Road | Buffalo Flats | ||
| Jefferson | Harts Gravel Road | Intersection of Kings Ridge Road | Lick Fork | ||
| Columbia | CR 450 North | West of Cuzco Road South | Patoka River | ||
| Jefferson | Taylor Hollow Road | West of SR 145 | Anderson River | ||
| 2/24/2018 | 02/24/18 | Marion | Jasper-Dubois Road | Half mile south of SR 545 | Polson Creek |
| Marion | Schnellville Road | Between SR 162 and Santine Road | Several Low Areas | ||
| Bainbridge | CR 100 South | Between 400 West and Old H’burg Rd | Dick Creek Area | ||
| Date Closed | Date Opened | DISTRICT #3 | Water Feature | ||
| Township | Road Name | Point of Closure | |||
| 2/22/2018 | Bainbridge | Old Huntingburg Road | North of CR 400 South | Patoka River | |
| Patoka | CR 650 West | Between SR 64 and Duff Road SE | Bottom | ||
| 2/22/2018 | Patoka | CR 400 South | West of Ell Creek Road | Ell Creek | |
| 2/22/2018 | Patoka | CR 400 South | East of US 231 | Hunley Creek | |
| 2/23/2018 | Patoka | CR 130 West | North of 400 South | Hunley Creek | |
| Patoka | Duff Road Southeast | Between 600 West and 500 South | Ell Creek | ||
| Patoka | CR 500 South | West of 400 W | Ell Creek | ||
| 2/22/2018 | Patoka | Old Road 64 | West of Patoka Road | Hunley Creek | |
| 2/24/2018 | 02/26/18 | Ferdinand | CR 850 South | East of Ferdinand Road Northwest | Hunley Creek |
| Ferdinand | CR 1000 South | West of Ferdinand Road Northwest | Hunley Creek | ||
| 2/22/2018 | Patoka | 1st Street – Huntingburg | West of CR 75 West | Bruner Creek | |
| 2/23/2018 | 02/26/18 | Patoka | CR 75 West | South of SR 64 | Indian Creek |
| 2/23/2018 | 02/26/18 | Patoka | CR 660 South | East of CR 75 West | Indian Creek |
| 2/23/2018 | 02/25/18 | Patoka | CR 200 West | South of Sunset Drive | Short Creek |
| 2/23/2018 | 02/25/18 | Patoka | Ferdinand Road N W | 2 places East of CR 200 West | Valley Head Water |
| Jackson | CR 350 South | East of SR 162 | Flat Creek | ||
| Ferdinand | CR 75 East | North of Ferdinand Road Northwest | Hunley Creek | ||
| 2/24/2018 | 2/26/2018 | Patoka | CR 50 West | Between Old Road 64 & SR 64 | Bruner Creek |
| Patoka | CR 450 South | West of Patoka Road | Hunley Creek | ||
| Closed | Reopened | TOTAL ROADS CLOSED NOW | |||
| 38 | 12 | 26 | |||
| MEDIA CONTACTS: | |||||
| CENTRAL DISPATCH | duboisco911@psci.net | ||||
| EMA – TAMMY HUMBERT | duboisema@psci.net | ||||
| WITZ | news@witzamfm.com | ||||
| WITZ | witz@witzamfm.com | ||||
| WBDC | news@wbdc.us | ||||
| THE HERALD – CANDY | cneal@dcherald.com | ||||
| THE HERALD – BILL | bpowell@dcherald.com | ||||
| FREE PRESS – MATT | editor@duboiscountyfreepress.com | ||||
| NEWS NOW – MICK | mick@newsnowdc.com | ||||
| THE HERALD | justinrumbach@gmail.com | ||||
| THE HERALD | beepuspeepus@gmail.com | ||||
| WEBMASTER | bawendholt@duboiscountyin.org | ||||
