Corps Water Management Web Page Still Down

Lake people and anglers who like to regularly check on lake levels in the Upper Savannah River District have been without their daily resource for almost a month.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District Web site’s Water Managers Page is still down but should be back up in the next few days.

Two weeks ago the page, which posts the daily water levels for Lakes Hartwell, Russell, and Thurmond crashed and has not been refreshed since, according to Corps spokesperson Russell Wicke.(WICK – EE)

Wicke said IT professionals told him their computer system suffered multiple failures.

“I’m not an IT person and what I got from them was, in simple terms,  ‘hardware failures on multiple backend servers are preventing data transmission on both the Web site and the app,'” Wicke said. 

Wicke said the new mobile app that launched this month has also been impacted because it depends on the database to provide real-time information.

According to Wicke when the system first crashed, the Corps office was not expecting it to take ten days to fix.  In the meantime, Wicke said for lake and river information, you can go on the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.

“One of the things you can do is go to the USGS Web site (http://www.usgs.gov/),” he said. “And you can get information on inflows, lake levels and rainfall for all three reservoir lakes.”

Wicke said another way to get the lake and reservoir information is by accessing the Corps Savannah River Facebook page.  

The Corps Web site crashed last summer as well and was down for almost five months before it was fixed.
Wicke said this repair should not take that long.   He said the Web page should be back online this week.