page_title: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
section_title: Flooding
hierarchical_section_title: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin / Climate / Flooding
caption_attribution_description: English: Caption was:Here is another rainfall map showing totals for a week time frame, during which the bulk of the rainfall occurred. (Week refers to June 5, 2008 to June 13, 2008)
context_page_description: Sun Prairie is a city in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A suburb of Madison, it is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 29,441 at the 2010 U.S. Census. It is the second-most populous city in Dane County after Madison.
context_section_description: The city of Sun Prairie encounters occasional flooding because of the presence of hydric soils, spring melting and its proximity to the Koshkonong Creek. This condition is compounded by storm water runoff from development and urbanization in the upper reaches of the watershed. Many residents of the city believe that the problems with flooding are worsening, becoming more frequent over the last 14 years.
  A flood on April 11, 2008, caused by heavy overnight rains that outpaced the city's storm drain system and leaked into the sewer system, resulted in flooding in residential basements. The city suffered considerably from the June 2008 Midwest floods.
caption: NWS map of Wisconsin rainfall totals for 5 June 2008 to 13 June 2008.
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