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The flood walls protect the city of Amsterdam from floods of 122,500 cu ft/s (3,470 m 3 /s) from the Mohawk River and floods of 3,400 cu ft/s (96 m 3 /s) from South Chuctanunda Creek. [34] The floodwalls were able to prevent $13.6 million in damages from tropical storms Lee and Irene .
The 1945 flood of the Ohio River was the second-worst in Louisville, Kentucky, history after the one in 1937 and caused the razing of the entire waterfront district of the neighborhood of Portland. Afterwards, flood walls were erected around the city to 3 feet (0.91 m) above the highest level of the '37 flood.
The flood walls protect the city of Amsterdam from floods of 122,500 cu ft/s (3,470 m 3 /s) from the Mohawk River and floods of 3,400 cu ft/s (96 m 3 /s) from South Chuctanunda Creek. [3] The floodwalls were able to prevent $13.6 million in damages from tropical storms Lee and Irene .
NOAA/USGS map of river flooding, June 29, 2006, around 1530 UTC. Note the purples and reds in the Northeastern United States. Click the image for a color key. The flooding was attributed to several weather factors that all came together over the region. The primary factor was the stalling of the jet stream just to the west of the Appalachian ...
On the morning of April 5, 1987, during a high spring flood, the Schoharie Creek Bridge collapsed. A snowmelt combined with rainfall totaling 150 mm (5.9 in) produced an estimated 50-year flood on the creek. Pier three was the first to collapse, which caused the progressive collapse of spans three and four.
The Loft family were members of the Mohawk Nation who had been relocated from its tribal home in what is now Canajoharie in the Mohawk River Valley to a reservation on the Salmon River in Western ...
Schoharie Creek is a river in New York that flows north 93 miles (150 km) [2] from the foot of Indian Head Mountain in the Catskills through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project.
A good bit of Appalachian history and arts got soaked in the record flooding in Eastern Kentucky.. In Whitesburg, water may have breached the vault at Appalshop, where the arts and media ...