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    Flooding Along the Lower Delaware River

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    Author
    DeMond, Thomas
    Keyword
    Glaciers
    Plateau
    Flooding
    CMST
    Flow Charts
    Graph
    Excel
    Date Published
    2006-01-06
    
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    Abstract
    The Delaware River valley has experienced a considerable amount of unexpected flooding this past year, and the Army Corps of Engineers has asked us to help come up with a plan to stop the high water from endangering communities along the lower Delaware River. Of particular concern is the city of Port Jervis, NY and Matamoras, PA. These two towns are situated at the base of the Catskill Mountains and are in a low valley. To further compound the problem, the Neversink River feeds into the Delaware just South East of Port Jervis. Back during the ice age, the glaciers gouged out deep troughs in the high plateau of North America. The waters that ran off created streams that over the decades formed present day rivers, lakes and ponds. In the Catskills, a river called the Delaware snakes its way from Delaware County, down past Callicoon and Roscoe, between mountains and dividing New York State and Pennsylvania. The distance is 50 miles by car, by twice that by the river. It’s in these mountains that snow falls and fills reservoirs that supply New York City and the communities in between with fresh drinking water. In a good winter, these mountains can accumulate 10 feet of snow. And when the spring rains begin to melt them and wash the melt down stream, problems occur. The river snakes on its course down the Delaware Valley and meets the Neversink River 1/4 mile past Port Jervis, NY. During the winter, both rivers ice over, and ice as thick as 3 feet is formed. It’s this ice that causes the problem. Down stream near Sparrowbush, the Delaware emerges from the high mountain walls, and runs into a wide valley. This valley was at one time a large lake. The lake water eroded a passage through the mountains at a place called the Delaware Water Gap, leaving behind the Neversink and Delaware Rivers. As the cold spring rains and melted snow start their journey down to the ocean, they emerge from the mountain pass and try to move under the iced over river. Usually in the middle of the night, the ice begins to shift and weakens under the pressure and with a deafening roar, gives way. The broken pieces of ice, as big as cars, are pushed downstream to the bend just before the place where the Neversink joins the Delaware. These huge blocks of ice pile up and form a dam, causing the water to back up. Soon, the river level reaches flood stage and begins to overflow its banks at Sparrowbush. The water floods the low lands and the Erie Railroad right of way, and begins to seep into homes and trailers in the west end of town. As the water rises further, it floods the business district and homes in the flood plain of the Delaware in the City of Port Jervis and the Borough of Matamoras, Pa. Justification Eighth grade students are challenged with modeling data in the form of a graph. Excel is an excellent tool for input of data and then production of a graph. The Excel chart wizard transforms columns of data into the desired graph and allows for the entry of headings.
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    Questions, comments or suggestions about this model may be sent to Dr. Leigh Little, llittle@brockport.edu, The College at Brockport.
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