Delaware River Flood June 2006

Video from June 28, 2006 of the Delaware River along the PA/NJ and PA/NY border of Milford and Matamoras, PA. Shots are from the Milford-Montague Toll Bridge, the Knob, and Interstate 84. The river experienced severe flooding after a few days of broken torrential downpours.

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[tvandersloot]

Great Vid! We just traveled through your area on Saturday -- BEAUTIFUL!! (We stayed at Best Western and ate at "The Grill")-- Does this area flood like this regularly?? How do people and business keep going??

[ryanbalton]

The area hadn't flooded badly since a terrible flood in the 50s, but in the past five years it has flooded three times.

[JamPak420]

that is not delaware I live there and we have no mountains here and there is no river only a bay this is a movie of something else

[ryanbalton]

Look on a map. The Delaware River extends from central New York down along the NY/Pennsylvania and New Jersey/Pennsylvania borders, ending in the bay between Delaware and NJ. en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Delaware_River

[corky238971]

@ryanbalton Up in WestFall yesterday we had a flash flood on our road. I'm not surprised if we get another flood.

[TheTomTomRUN]

i was at the K-MART during the time and got traped there

and the best western there was completly floded

[KMaxFloods]

There is a website called focusonfloods that is offering an online survey to help understand how people in the Delaware River Basin feel about flooding. This will help with a flood safety and awareness campaign. it takes just a couple of minutes. You can win 500.00

[Paulstathis1992]

hahahaha me and my dad hit 150 mph on that straight away on 84 in his lexus is-f =)

[Paulstathis1992]

@ryanbalton lololol jampak420 is a retard

[tricharlie]

I see your point. However, the DRBC's exhaustive study covered reservoir impact on flood crests as far down as Trenton. Fact is that a few inches of additional crest can mean the difference between flood/no flood to a lot of people. Safety voids would be good for everybody, albeit to varying degrees. The mismanaged NYC reservoirs are a contributor to the problem, and there are PA and NJ politicians who deny this and sell out to NYC. That's the dirty side of back-room politics for you....

[jgong8638]

What I said is fact. I said CFS far downstream. You're talking about much closer to the headwaters (East Branch). A flood downstream (Easton to Trenton) is a completely different Animal. That is what our politicians were blaming on those ponds. Check the flow rates and convert CFS to gallons at Trenton. You'll see what I mean 100B is nothing there. I don't argue the effect way, way upstream can be dramatic.. But, our politicians were talking about S.E. Pa. not N.E.

[tricharlie]

Sorry -- you've got your facts wrong. During this flood over 100 billion gallons of water spilled over the 3 "Delaware" reservoirs (DRM Charts). The DRBC's own study showed that the reservoirs contributed as much as 6 feet to flood crests on the East Branch alone, as did the NWS/NOAA and Ruggles studies. Hard science here, not "politics".

[jgong8638]

Actually this is certainly not true. It sounds good, but if you compare the volume of water that actually comes from these resovoirs during the worst floods(Cubic feet Per Second) to the CFS of the River far downstream during these floods, it is like a teaspoon's worth in a 5 gallon bucket. It was very disappointing that politicians kept this "argument" going even though it was well known to be untrue. It made them look good to their constituents. To me it makes them look like frauds.

[tricharlie]

Thank NYC and their spilling reservoirs for a few extra feet in flood crests. If they'd lower those reservoirs and leave some meaningful safety voids, everyone on the river would be less afraid...