I would say the recent rain is once and a lifetime. Beat the record and rain in the forecast all week.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/23/weather/texas-oklahoma-flash-flood-warnings/index.html

The spillway acted more as a long finger of the pond and never acted as what I would call a "spillway". I understand the issue with getting vegetation on the damn I guess that was just a little frustration coming out. Thanks for all the help and advice I greatly need it.