{"id":800160,"date":"2026-08-02T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800160\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:58:09","slug":"officials-warn-of-rising-water-levels-in-new-river-valley-after-heavy-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800160\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of rising water levels in New River Valley after heavy rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of increased water levels in Pulaski County. (Copyright 2026 by Pulaski County Emergency Management &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">NEW RIVER VALLEY, Va. \u2013 Officials are warning of rising water levels after several inches of rain were reported in Carroll County Saturday night and early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BC1g3im4N\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BC1g3im4N\/\">Pulaski County Emergency Management<\/a> warned residents along Big Reed Island Creek on Rock Creek Road about possible rising water levels, as the heavy rainfall has resulted in levels past the banks and within feet of roads and campsites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">PCEM said the water and debris is now working its way downstream to the New River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officials plan to continue monitoring water levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WSLS 10 &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo of increased water levels in Pulaski County. (Copyright 2026 by Pulaski County Emergency Management &#8211; All rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[29824,192,339738,339739,70534,79,50629],"class_list":["post-800160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-carroll-county","tag-environment","tag-new-river","tag-new-river-valley","tag-pulaski-county","tag-science","tag-water-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}