The water is brown for other reasons down there . Think what happens when ya make chocolate milk lol
It’s a joke relax homey
The “wow” was about the pic, not you :lol Its all gooooood :hug
I saw that after I responded lol
I would just like to say fuck that storm. Been out since 6:30am yesterday until about 4pm today running back to back fire calls.
The marina my aunts boat used to be docked at in the catskills was completely gone. 60’+ boats going loose down the river. Not sure if true but i heard if you find a boat thats been deserted, you can “claim” it ??
Oh fuck, loading the kayak onto the car now and going boat “shopping.”
lol. there’s a bit more to the maritime law than just finders keeps in domestic waters.
If its a NY Boat with a transferrable reg you can hang on to it for a year and then go fill out some forms at the DMV stating you’ve had possession of it for a year or more and then get ownership. Not guaranteed to always work though lol.
Def not a joke.
This is my apartment parking lot at 10 am yesterday morning it was 2ft higher at 7 last night.
i knew there was more to it lol
video from the governor…
Freeman’s Bridge road looked like a muddy field this afternoon.
A few of the places I deliver to are closed due to flooding.
Anyone watching Katia? Looks like it could track into the Carolinas. But will most likely curl off to the east.
Nearly 4 months later people are still cleaning up after this mess.
http://www.nypa.gov/facilities/blengil.htm
The Catskill Mountains are home to a special type of hydroelectric facility that serves as a giant energy-storage device—the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project. Nestled beneath 2,000-foot-tall Brown Mountain, this project generates more than one million kilowatts of electricity in peak demand periods by drawing water from Schoharie Creek and recycling it between two huge reservoirs.
Blenheim-Gilboa serves two vital functions. It saves money for New York consumers by providing low-cost electricity when they need it most. And it stores water for emergency power production. If necessary, this project can be up and running within two minutes. It can “pinch hit” if another plant or line suddenly goes out of service.
Here’s how it works:
Each of the reservoirs—one atop Brown Mountain, the other at its foot—holds five billion gallons of water. When we’re generating power, the water cascades down a concrete shaft that’s five times taller than Niagara Falls. When we’re storing water—usually at night or over the weekend—we reverse the process and pump the water back up the shaft for storage.
The system allows us, literally, to “go with the flow”—to take advantage of the daily highs and lows in statewide electricity demand. In other words, we can generate power when we need it—generally in the late afternoon or early evening—and store the water that fuels the power when we don’t need it. The electricity Blenheim-Gilboa uses to return water to its upper reservoir is inexpensive surplus power made available during low-demand periods. The cost of this power is cheaper than the electricity our project replaces the following day during peak-demand periods.
At Blenheim-Gilboa, we generate electricity at the powerhouse, a concrete structure that sits at the base of Brown Mountain on the banks of the lower reservoir. More than three-quarters of the facility is underground. When the lower reservoir is full, only five feet of the plant is visible above the water.
A $135-million four-year program to modernize and extend the life of the Blenheim-Gilboa project was completed in May 2010. As part of the four-year program, known as LEM (Life Extension and Modernization), one of project’s four turbine-generator units was taken out of service each fall for approximately eight months. Most of the unit’s mechanical and electrical components were replaced, with repairs made to virtually all other parts. With completion of the project, the four units have a generating capacity of 290 megawatts each, providing an overall project generating capacity of 1,160 megawatts.
The unspoiled beauty surrounding Blenheim-Gilboa is a pleasure for the many visitors—local residents and out-of-town tourists—who flock here for educational and recreational pursuits. Besides producing power, we operate a Visitors Center and help maintain adjacent attractions that generate good times as well.
so basically when the flood hit the upper reservior was already full of water. when irene hit. it filled the lower reservior till it was overflowing and 3 gates had to be opened to prevent damage to it. when late afternoon hit they released water, 5 billion gallons to produce electricity for nyc. The 5 million gallons went over the lower reservior dam. causing a flood downstream. yet in yesterdays times journal, nypa says They lessened the effects of irene. HRMMM :ponder… smells like shit, tastes like shit, feels like shit, MUST BE BULLSHIT!! no one wants to stand up and fight nypa
1/25/2012
By David Avitabile
NYPA’s hydroelectric plant lessened and did not worsen the effects of Hurricane Irene on the Schoharie Valley more than 350 people were told in Schoharie Thursday evening.
The public meeting at the Holiday Inn Express was very unusual but necessary to answer some concerns and criticisms that have been expressed against NYPA since the flood, Mr. Hait said.
“The Power Authority doesn’t do this,” he said at the start of his presentation.
“They don’t have public meetings. It’s a very rare occurrence.”
The meeting, though, was needed, he said.
“It’s become apparent to us that the rumor mill is out of control.”
The amount of water coming into NYPA’s reservoir’s was always more than the amount of water being released, said Lynn Hait, regional manager of NYPA’s central region.
“The dam did not worsen the flood,” Mr. Hait said. “The dam lessened the water flow down stream.”
He noted the devastating effect of the flood on Prattsville, which is upstream of the Power Authority.
The facility, he said, was not designed for flood mitigation. What flows in, flows out.
The peak inflow into the reservoir was more than 129,000 cubic feet per second while the peak outflow was 118,000 CFS, Mr. Hait said.
During the course of the August 28 storm, the outflow remained less than the inflow, he said.
“We were able to clip the peak,” he said. “We do what we can, when we can.”
He estimated the reduction at about eight percent.
Schoharie County officials, along with those from towns in the county, have agreed to file a notice of claim against the Power Authority holding it liable for some of the flood damage.
The Power Authority was not generating power during the storm though its three gates had to be opened to prevent water from overtaking the NYPA’s earthen dam, Mr. Hait said.
The gates, he said, open at one foot a minute and it takes 42 minutes for the gates to completely open.
The opening of the gates was interrupted by a power failure when the gates were three and a half feet open and had to be completed with diesel generators.
The opening of the gates, he said, did not cause a wall of water down the Valley.
Many people in the Valley have said that a wall of water in the afternoon of August 28 worsened the flood.
In December, county officials said a major release of water raised the water level significantly on the afternoon of August 28.
Like many people, NYPA officials thought Hurricane Irene would go further east and not make a direct hit over the Catskills.
The storm dumped more than 16 inches of rain in the Windham, Tannersville area, the source of the Schoharie Creek.
On the morning of August 28, the National Weather Service predicted that the rain would cause a peak water flow of 11,000 CFS, Mr. Hait said, “not a big deal. Not concerned at all, except we kept looking out the window.”
The heavy rain continued, there was flash flooding on roads and gauges failed.
“Tropical Storm Irene fooled everybody,” he said.
“It is the storm of five centuries. The storm of eight generations.”
To lessen the outflow of water, the NYPA had four pumps working to send water to the upper reservoir, a very rare occurrence, and had three gates open.
For the first time in its history, the NYPA had to activate the Emergency Action Plan at the site.
“We believed we were looking at doomsday.”
At the worst of the storm, the water was only 1.75 inches from going over the top of the earthen dam.
Losing the NYPA dam “would have been catastrophic,” Mr. Hait said.
What about after you released the water from the upper reservior to make power for nyc? did it just float away into the abis and not go over the dam?
you answered your own question already.
or so they say. then why around 6 o clock did the valley all of the sudden start filling up with water?.. you know what i mean? it just sounds too convinient that the flooding happened around the time that they make power.
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a video showing that a large amount of water came from the dam. you can see that water obviously came from somewhere in the dams vicinity. either it came from the dam, or it came from the dam. theres no denying where it came from. and the dam itself sits ontop of a mountain. so theres no where else it would have come from upstream