Janesville Wastewater Utility workers Scott Schilling, left, and Leonard Nelsen vacuum excess water from a sewer lift in the Mole & Sadler subdivision while raising the unit's control panel on Friday.
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Photo By: Dan Lassiter
A Canada goose walks through water in the front yard of a home near the corner of Hamilton Ave. and Joseph St. in the Mole & Sadler area of Janesville on Friday.
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Bryan Schwader shoots video of the flooding at the Mole & Sadler area on Friday. He said he lives nearby.
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Water being pumped out of the Main Street Saloon flows from a pipe behind the building on Friday.
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Water rushes over the Centerway Dam in downtown Janesville on Friday.
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Condensation from flood moisture combined with cold outside air covers the display window at 21 N. Main St., one of the buildings that backs up to the Rock River which is flooding.
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Rising groundwater collects behind a business on N. Mainstreet in Downtown Janesville near the sandbagged River Walk on Friday.
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The Rock Aqua Jays bleachers at Traxler Park are under water as the Rock River has overflowed the bank in that area on Friday.
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The Rock River has overflowed its banks at the Rock Aqua Jays bleachers at Traxler Park on Friday.
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Mike Payne, Janesville City Engineering Manager, explains a graph of last year's flooding with reading taken from various different locations on the Rock River during a meeting with city officials and area residents and business owners concerning the spring flooding on Friday.
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Mike Payne, Janesville City Engineering Manager, explains a graph of last year's flooding with readings taken from various different locations on the Rock River during a meeting with city officials and area residents and business owners concerning the spring flooding on Friday.
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Janesville City Manager Eric Levitt addresses a crowd of area residents and business owners about the spring flooding at Janesville City Hall on Friday.
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Water from the swelling Rock River covers the parking lot at Happy Hollow Park, which was closed due to flooding on Thursday.
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Rock River flood water covers a parking lot adjacent to a picnic area at Happy Hollow Park which was closed due to the flooding on Thursday.
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Floodwater covers S. Christianson Road on Janesville's south side on Thursday.
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Floodwater from the Rock River covers the driveway and approaches a home across the road from the river at 3507 South River Road on Thursday. A line on the siding shows the water level from last year's flooding.
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A vehicle splashes through floodwater from the Rock River that crosses South River Road on Thursday. The road is closed between W Avalon Road and Happy Hollow Rd due to flooding.
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Water from the swelling Rock River encroaches onto the 3200 block of South River Road on Thursday.
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In anticipation of rising water from the Rock River, sandbags line the riverwalk from Firehouse Park to Milwaukee Street in Janesville. Many businesses in downtown Janesville are still recovering from last year's record floods.
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A home on Lake Koshkonong in the Mallwood area shows the water line from last year's record flood while the water continues to rise this week. Flood waters now cover North Lakeview Drive in Milton Township.
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An orange spray painted line on a tree in Spencer DeRemer's backyard on Ellendale Road marks how high the Rock River reached during 2008's record flooding.
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An early spot to fall to high water, the Mole & Sadler area of Janesville is once again being inundated. Water has closed Joseph St. along the river and several houses have water encroaching.
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Rising water is once again threatening homes in the Mole & Sadler subdivision along the Rock River in Janesville. The area was hit hard by flooding in 2008.
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Two inches of rain on Tuesday have dramatically raised the level of the Rock River in the area. Over flood stage for days, the river is once again threatening places that are still trying to recover from last year's flood, like the Veterans Plaza area of Traxler Park.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
The bleacher area of the Aqua Jays' show area began to go under water Wednesday as the river rose after the are got two inches of rain on Tuesday.
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The Rock River has already closed Joseph St. and is slowly creeping up Elgin in the Mole & Sadler subdivision in Janesville. The area was among the worst hit in the 2008 flooding.
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J.R. Wilson of the Janesville Rock Aqua Jays picks things up off the floor of the group's building in Traxler Park in anticipation of the rising river levels. The club is still in the process of recovery in the structure after last year's months long flooding.
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