The closed section of county roads 9 and 45 are more than just a wet road. At 30.9 feet Sunday, water in the Minnesota River is flowing at a quickened clip. 

As of today, the best routes around the floodwaters would be through Belle Plaine or Bloomington.

Here's a video taken on Saturday, March 20, courtesy of National Weather Service storm spotter Ryan Schwartz:

Shawn Hogendorf of the Prior Lake American reports:

Three teenagers from Savage were arrested for burglary last weekend after they allegedly scaled the drain pipe of a building in Prior Lake and got into the vacant building through a hatch on the roof.
While police officer Rick Denmark was on routine patrol in the Fountain Hills area at about 10:28 p.m. on March 13, he saw what appeared to be a person moving inside the area formerly occupied by Creative Floor Gallery, 4385 Fountain Hills Drive.

The National Weather Service predicts that the Minnesota River will crest at 31 feet near Jordan on Tuesday.

Its 11:22 a.m. report today said that the river was at 27.9 feet, which is 1.4 feet higher than yesterday. Flood stage is 25 feet.

The Scott County Road 9 and Carver County Road 45 river crossing between Sand Creek and San Francisco townships has been closed for two days.

The Minnesota River crossing near Jordan has been closed for two days.

Check our flood map for the latest conditions.

Go to jordannews.com/floodmap.

Staff Writer Katrina Styx has taken a job at the Hastings Star Gazette. Today is her last day in the downtown Jordan office.

"In the past 1-1/2 years, I’ve learned about Jordan and all of you who live here," she wrote in her column for this week's print edition. "More importantly, I’ve learned from you, and those are lessons I will never forget."

Styx covered police, schools, and other general assignments for your local newspaper.

Read Styx's column in the March 18 print edition of the Jordan Independent.

At 11:12 a.m. March 1, officers and a K-9 unit conducted a drug search at a school in the 600 block of Sunset Drive. Two students were charged with possession and also face disciplinary action from the school.

Read more about what incidents the Jordan Police Department handles on page 13 of the March 11 print edition of the Jordan Independent.

Listen to public safety incidents as they happen by tuning in to the police scanner online at www.jordannews.com/crimebeat.

Shannon Fiecke of the Shakopee Valley News reports:

Funding to complete a local training center for police and firefighters has been left on the cutting room floor, but Rep. Michael Beard, R-Shakopee, predicts the project could re-emerge in the final negotiated bonding bill.

Here's what Jordan City Administrator Ed Shukle said about the city's recent agreement with AFSCME:

“This is the same basic terms that LELS received.”

In recent years, raises for most city employees followed the lead of Law Enforcement Labor Services (LELS), Local No. 318, the police sergeant and patrol officers' union. The police union has more leverage than the employees in administration or in Jordan Public Works, because LELS is the only union that has the right to force arbitration.