"There's a lot of stuff floating in the river, and the current is pretty fast, too," Lockway said. "

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"I'm basically closed down," Mau said Wednesday, May 30. "You can't even get to a boat. The phone has been ringing off the hook with people wanting to make reservations, but we can't do anything until the water goes down. We're just getting into the key part of our summer business, and to have this happen now, well, it's a big impact."
Mau said he's had to put his worms in a refrigerator in the marina's garage while he waits for the fishermen to return. "As for Joe Belisle of St. Paul gets a bit of a soaker as Cowboy, his 7-year-old Australian Shepherd mix, cavorts at his feet in the swollen Mississsippi River at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul on Monday, May 29, 2012. "So my feet get wet. I'm retired, what do I care?" said Belisle. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall) the live bait, I had to have the dealer come out, and he took all the bait back," Mau said.
The city on Wednesday closed Parking Lot No. 2, just east of the Freight House restaurant and nightclub. Gannaway said other city-owned parking lots also could be closed this week, depending on how high the water gets.
Over in St. Advertisement Paul, hikers and bikers have been told to watch for barricades and washouts. A week's worth of rainy weather hasn't elevated the Mississippi River at an alarming rate, but it has closed some low-lying trails in St. Paul parks.
The Mississippi also has reached the walkway at Meeker Island, near the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue bridge. The river level rose to 11.5 feet on Wednesday morning and is expected to crest at 12.9 feet on Saturday, according to city officials and the National Weather Service.
Brad Meyer, a spokesman for the St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department, said city officials typically roll out a response plan when the Mississippi reaches 14 feet, though major flooding does not occur until it rises to 17 feet.
The St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the three Twin Cities lock and dams to commercial traffic Tuesday night because of increasing high-water flows in the Mississippi River.
parking for los angeles airport In Minneapolis, locks and dams at Upper St. Anthony Falls and Lower St. Anthony Falls and Lock and Dam 1 at Minnehaha Park were closed to commercial traffic when flows passed 40,000 cubic feet per second, or cfs. The locks will be closed to recreational traffic until flows are below 30,000 cfs.
The plywood parking for los angeles airport sheets, called flash boards, are attached parking for los angeles airport to pipes at the top of the dam spillway and are designed to tear away at high river flows, Xcel officials said. The boards cannot be replaced until the water level goes down. Barring additional rain, Xcel crews expect to replace the boards parking for los angeles airport in mid-June.
Xcel has posted warning signs for boaters parking for los angeles airport because large debris that flowed through the plant area during the weekend also tore out the string of buoys that warned boaters of the approaching dam. The warning parking for los angeles airport signs will remain until the normal warning buoys can be replaced, parking for los angeles airport Xcel officials said.
"There's a lot of stuff floating in the river, and the current parking for los angeles airport is pretty fast, too," Lockway said. "Plus, it's 'slow, no wake,' so that means that people can't get from Point A to Point B without just putzing."
The slow, no-wake zone -- designed to minimize shoreline erosion -- is authorized by state rules in Minnesota and Wisconsin and is triggered when the St. Croix reaches 83 feet at Stillwater. Officials from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday parking for los angeles airport that they expect the restriction to stay in place for a week and a half.
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