Once-dry Piscataquis River Reaches Flood Stage In Early Week Storm

Barely two months after registering date records for lowest daily water flow in late September, the Piscataquis River was at flood stage on Tuesday afternoon. The river was reported to be at 11.9 feet as of 11:30 a.m., with flood stage for the waterway northwest of Dover-Foxcroft at 11.0 feet, according to a flood warning issued by the National Weather Service office in Caribou. The river is expected to crest at 12.4 feet by 7 p.m., then drop below flood stage later Tuesday evening as a 24-hour rainstorm that drenched the area with between 3 and 4 inches of precipitation abated. The NWS reported that the river was flowing at a rate of 12,000 cubic feet per second by the measuring gauge at Low’s Bridge just off Route 15 in Guilford late Tuesday morning. That’s equivalent to 89,766 gallons per second, and in stark contrast to the flow rate recorded at the same location on both Sept.