As rain continued to fall on Seguin and Guadalupe County Tuesday morning, county officials were saying it could take thousands of dollars to repair the damage done to roads and highways as a result of the flooding in the county Saturday.
    The heaviest damage occurred in the northeast part of the county, in Precinct 2, where Monroe Schubert is county commissioner.
    Schubert reported Monday that there was a lot of damage throughout his precinct.
    In Redwood, near the Hays Guadalupe County line, there was a report of 18.4 inches of rain falling Saturday.  Cottonweed Creek at Redwood had a lot of driftwood in it and a lot of damage was done.
    Residents of an apartment of the building there had to be rescued by helicopter.
    Schubert said it would take several days to repair all of the roads, but that most were open Monday though not repaired correctly.
    Five bridges on the San Marcos River in the county were still under four to five feet of water on Monday.
    Extensive damage was also reported in the Geronimo area where water washed out roads.  Roads west of Kingsbury were passable but in bad shape, Schubert said.
    In other parts of the county the damage was not as severe.
    Henry Theiss, commissioner in Precinct 4, reported that there was a lot of trash and debris under the bridges and culverts and that there were some washouts but that traffic could get through.
    Hugo Ackerman reported no great amount of damage in Precinct 3 in the western part of the county.
    Precinct 1 reported a few small damages.  Calvin Turner, Sr. is the commissioner there.
    Walter Ehelers, resident engineer in Seguin with the Texas Department of Public Transportation, reported that there was some damage to farm roads.
    He said there was a small washout on FM 1979 but that workmen were able to get it repaired Sunday.  Some pavement was also lost on several of the roads where York Creek crosses, he said.
    All roads were open Monday, Ehlers said.
    Bill Polasek, public works director said Tuesday morning that in the city itself the drainage system worked "fairly well, just a little slow"  Saturday during the heavy rains.
    He noted especially on Kingsbury Street where the land is so flat that it takes a while for water to run off.
    One  problem he noted was on North Martindale Street where a sewer line washed out under the pavement and the pavement began to crack.
    He said that crews had gone out Tuesday morning to begin repairs, but the rain had forced them back inside.  He said the only problems were that now the city had several hundred new pot holes.
    The only facility damage he mentioned was at the sewer station on the Geronimo Creek where the motor and pumps were under water.  He added, though, that the station is back in working condition already.
    Measures were also taken by Guadalupe Blanco River Authority in efforts to control the flow on the Guadalupe River.
    The gates of all six of the hydro lakes on the river under the authority's jurisdiction were lowered Saturday to allow the water to pass through.
    As Leroy Goodson explained, the gates are not actual dams.  They only back the water up to form the lakes on the land in the authority's easement.
    The gates were lowered at Dunlap, McQueeney, Red Mill, Nolte, Belmont and Gonzales to allow the water to spill.
    Goodson also said that Monday water was being released from the Canyon Dam at a rate of 200 feet per second and that probably after some of the water below the dam had had a chance to on downstream more water would be released to relieve the lake of rainfall which had fallen above the dam.
    There was no water released from the dam at all over the weekend.
Seguin Gazette, June 16, 1981