Wood County Sheriff to release ID of flood victim
Dirty mattresses and other debris can be seen in two dumpsters provided for free by Rumpke in the Parking Partners lot on Second Street in Marietta on Monday. Marietta residents can put their flood debris in the dumpsters. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)
A JaniSource employee walks into Stoked Coffee at 302 Pike St. in Marietta on Monday afternoon to clean. According to the coffee shop鈥檚 Facebook post, they sustained significant water damage due to the flooding the week of April 2. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)
Dirty mattresses and other debris can be seen in two dumpsters provided for free by Rumpke in the Parking Partners lot on Second Street in Marietta on Monday. Marietta residents can put their flood debris in the dumpsters. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)
A JaniSource employee walks into Stoked Coffee at 302 Pike St. in Marietta on Monday afternoon to clean. According to the coffee shop鈥檚 Facebook post, they sustained significant water damage due to the flooding the week of April 2. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)
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PARKERSBURG -- The name of the person who died over the weekend due to high water on Nicolette Road will not be released until today, according to Wood County Sheriff Department Chief Deputy Mike Deem.
Emergency officials received a call at 5:37 p.m. Sunday regarding a blue Chevy S-10 truck submerged in high water at the 1100 block of Nicolette Road. Members of the Wood County Sheriff's Office, St. Joseph Ambulance Service and the East Wood Volunteer Fire Department dispatched to the scene.
Wood County Sheriff Rick Woodyard said the Little Hocking Fire Department dive team was on scene and had recovered one body. He said Pifers Towing was also on the scene to recover the vehicle. He said the cause of the accident is still under investigation.
Wood County 911 Director Mike Shook said over the weekend local rivers and creeks were on the rise again.
"It got close to where it was last week,'' he said. "It has been going down (Monday).''
Emergency services put out an announcement via Facebook that they have cleanup kits available, but they hadn't had any takers as of 3 p.m. Monday.
Shook believes as the water continues to go down and people are able to see how the water has impacted them they will have some requests for the cleanup kits.
In Washington County, Mayor Josh Schlicher said streets on the west and south areas were closed for cleanup and debris removal. Gilman Avenue, Virginia Street, South Fifth Street, and South Seventh Street were closed for water levels over the weekend.
The city announced via Facebook Monday afternoon that Gilman Avenue and Virginia Street were open. Schlicher said South Fifth and South Seventh streets are also open.
Schlicher said he had not heard of any reports from business owners on Front Street regarding flooding in their stores from this past weekend.
"They might have water in their basements, but I haven't heard anything else," he said.
"We got through it pretty well. We got pretty lucky," he said.
Ohio River water levels crested at 37.89 feet at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. As of 5 p.m. Monday, the level dropped to 31.2 feet.
Marietta City Schools operated under a two-hour delay Monday due to flooding impacting certain bus routes, the district announced via Facebook post.
Communications Coordinator Christian Hudspeth said Monday afternoon that all bus routes are now operating normally and school will be open normal hours today.
The National Weather Service in Charleston forecasts today to be partly sunny with isolated showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and highs in the upper 70s. The chance of rain is 20%. The chance of rain will increase to 40% tonight with lows in the 60s, the report said.
Brett Dunlap can be reached at bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com
Kristen Hainkel can be reached at khainkel@newsandsentinel.com