PERU, Ind. (AP) _ A U.S. Army Corp of Engineers official says record high water levels at three northern Indiana reservoirs are preventing the flooding of communities downstream.

The Corps of Engineers' Louisville, Kentucky, District office reports Mississinewa Lake southeast of Peru stood at 777.2 feet Saturday, or less than 2 feet from reaching the dam's spillway

Nearby Salamonie Lake stood at 792.2 feet, less than a foot below flood stage, and J. Edward Roush Lake southeast of Huntington stood at 796.2 feet, or less than 2 feet below flood stage.

Operations manager Scot Dahms of the Corps' Upper Wabash Lakes division tells the Logansport Pharos-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1J9VU08 ) that engineers have to wait for water levels on the Wabash River to go down before they can increase the release of water from the reservoirs.