Town of Summit - State police are assisting local authorities in maintaining and enforcing barricades on roads closed in the town as a result of flooding and concerns over bridge stability, according to Town Police Officer Mike Sterwald, the town's emergency management director.
Sterwald said the state troopers was assigned to the town barricades after Police Chief James Race asked state officials for help.
Race asked for the help shortly after noon Friday when he was notified by state highway authorities that they intended to shut down west bound Interstate 94 from the Highway 83 interchange in the City of Delafield to Highway 26 in Johnson Creek in Jefferson County.
Race told states officials during a telephone conversation at Town Hall that local law enforcement agencies were stretched to their human resource limits by flooding in the region.
He said motorist were ignoring barricades on flooded roads in the town and suggested that if the state expect their barricades on Interstate 94 to be enforced, the governor should call out the national guard.
Race said later Friday that his request for the National Guard assistance had been denied.
Race estimated that there are several hundred residents of the town whose homes have been flooded; ranging from a few inches in basements in subdivision homes to several feet of water that has surrounded and inundated lake shore homes on the Genesee lakes.
Sterwald said that Highway 67 at the Roundy's warehouse south to Highway 18 is closed because of a high water at the Whitaker Lane bridge over the Bark River.
Highway 18 from Dousman Road west to Utica Road is also closed because of high water and concerns about the stability of bridge also over the Bark River, according to Sterwald.
Delafield Road east to Waterville Road is also closed because of Bark River flooding, according to Sterwald.
He said that Genesee Lake Road from Dousman Road east to North Genesee Woods Drive has been closed along with North Douglas Road.
The Highway 67 west bound ramp onto Interstate 94 is also closed. West bound Interstate 94 from Highway 83 has been closed since about 4 p.m. Friday, according to state and local officials.