West Point Lake was at 636 feet above mean sea level and dropping this morning, and operations at West Point City Hall had returned to normal after high waters.

“We got through it,” said Army Corps of Engineers spokesman David Barr. “The lake ought to start to decline pretty quick.”

Barr said the U.S. 27 bridge over the Chattahoochee River in Franklin remained closed this morning, but state Department of Transportation inspectors planned to look it over today to see if it could reopen.

At the Chattahoochee in West Point, Police Chief David Kerr said the city made it through the incident with minimal impacts. The main concern was the transformer that powers City Hall and the police station. On Thursday afternoon water was just beginning to get in the bottom of the transformer before the water began to recede.

City Hall and police operations did wind up moving to the tech center on O.G. Skinner Drive and the police department command trailer Thursday night, but they were able to move back downtown Sunday.

“(Water) was just at the bottom of the transformer and probably wouldn’t have been an issue, but we didn’t want to risk it,” Kerr said.

The chief praised the corps for its work in controling the flooding.

“The corps did an excellent job controlling the river,” Kerr said. “I thought we had a good working relationship (in the flood of 2003), but it was even better this time.”

The flooding came after heavy rains in north Georgia last week.