KSDK — Evacuations are underway in St. Charles after a levee overtopped and then breached Tuesday morning near Fountain Lakes and Huster Road just north of Highway 370.
The Elm Point levee broke around 1:30 a.m. Officials said flooding appears to be limited to a soccer park and a sod farm. A nearby mobile home park did not appear it would flood, but residents have been warned to be prepared.
Video of the affected area The soccer fields are part of the initial view you see, with the early green space on the right giving way to the brown water. Look close, the 4th billboard down the highway is closest to the road that split the SLYSA fields. You can barely see the roof of the central building (also pictured above) sticking out of the water beyond that point.
Eighteen St. Louis Youth Soccer Association playing fields also flooded Tuesday.
They are fields that the association says 7,000 children will depend on this fall.
When it comes to the damage the flood water is expected to do to turf on the fields, “The financial impact is somewhere between five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand dollars to replace it,” said Roger Uphoff, the soccer association’s president.
From the StLsoccer.net message board:
wilber (Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:02 pm): That picture is not even close to what it looks like now. I just drove past 10 minutes ago. the water is about 3 feet or so from HWY 370!!!! You can see about 2 feet of the concession stand roof. the poles with the field number markers, you know the ones that are really high, you can see the flags and about a foot of the pole below that. It is still going up.
I dont know how many of you remember 93 but before the flood there was a huge softball complex(about 24 fields) where SLYSA is, interestingly enough called 2 Rivers softball complex. They had been working on the fields for a few years and had really brought them along and then the flood came and wiped it out. You know there is no more 2 Rivers Softball Complex. I dont think the owners had the cash to rebuild. I dont think the water was this high back then, and as someone mentioned before, the water is now trapped by the levee and the highway in that valley. This will be a tough one.
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