A tentative date of Thursday, June 30th, has been scheduled for Velva businesses  to return to the city and Friday, July 1st, a return for those residing in the evacuated areas.  These dates on contingent on safety and river levels.  Currently, the Mouse River at Velva, as of 7:00 a.m. June 28th, was at 1513.8.  It needs to read 1512.8 for a reentry.

The levee system and channel streamlining was done in the 70′s  with a dike level of 1515.  Settling, over the course thirty-plus years, has made for  lower levels in some areas.  It was determined yesterday the  flow through Velva was at 28,500 cfs.  The channel, on a typical summer day, can flow at about 2-3,000 cfs.  These numbers pale in comparison to the Missouri River  at 150,000 cfs, but the Mouse River is not a wide bed of sandbars and slow rising banks. The Mouse twists and turns and in many places  looks like a little sister of the Red River.

Twenty-eight thousand five hundred cfs roars.  Really roars!