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From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" paultup AT lucent DOT com
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:45:24 -0400
Subject: FW: Flood waters at DWG Station
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Here is an amazing story of disaster narrowly averted, from list member (and Delaware-Lackawanna boss) David Monte Verde... Check out the photo!

- Paul




This is remarkable because at 6:30 PM on Sunday Sept 19th ( 9 hours after this photo was taken) I drove right down to our (DL) tracks past the station along the road next to the covered white windows & freight house to the I-80 overhead and for the most part the area is fairly dry and very little mud! The tracks do not appear to be badly damage or scoured, and all of this water shown in the photos is gone!!! I drove down through the Gap on 611 and the tracks were all visible & there did not appear to be significant scouring of the ballast, I don't understand how or why, I am just thankful!

Regards David MV



Greetings:

Almost 101 years after a flood interrupted construction on the new Water Gap Station, the structure has again found itself the victim of flooding. Hurricane Ivan had dumped five inches of rain on the Pocono region, but the Broadhead Creek and Delaware River stayed just below flood stage. But the seven inches of rain in the Catskill region soon emptied into the Delaware basin up north and swelled the river in the Water Gap area to within three feet of the historic level reached by Hurricane Diane in 1955. Maximum high water was reached at 9 AM on September 19th, at a level up to the station's windowsills.
I will be inspecting the station tomorrow, and organizing a cleanup campaign soon. I will send out an email report tomorrow.
Attached are two pictures taken at 10 AM 09/19/04. (JPEG at 636 KB).

Chris Barbieri
Chair, Delaware Water Gap Station Restoration Project
watergapstation@sunlink.net





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