(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 01, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- In the month of July, the amount of rain that has fallen in Southern New Jersey has saturated the ground. Therefore, it only took one small thunderstorm, Sunday, to tip things over the edge.
Any additional rainfall just compounds the problem; the water just has no place to go and drainage systems cannot keep up with it.
After Sunday nights storm, Joe Leone spent Monday morning digging drainage ditches on his Gloucester County farm. Over seven inches of water sat atop his 300 acres of tomato fields in Greenwich Township on Monday morning. Its been going on for a month here, with all the rain weve been getting, Leone said. A little stupid thunderstorm and we get more than seven inches of rain.
Sunday evening, thunderstorms and rain came fast and furiously, says Pennsville Chief of Police Allen J. Cummings. Two to seven inches of water dropped very quickly, causing traffic delays that lasted for hours, stranding motorists and flooding roads. Cummings had to actually dive into the flood waters to rescue two women Sunday afternoon. Ive been here 23 years (on the police force) and weve experienced flooding from tidal storms, but I dont recall a rainstorm causing that amount of flooding in that short of time. It was unreal, he said. The storm caused hours of delays on Route 76, U.S. Route 130 North and I-295.
Greenwich Township was the most highly affected area. Water from East Greenwich, Harrison Township and Glassboro naturally drains through the town into the Delaware River, so when Greenwich is already flooded the water just keeps rising. Complicating the matter, the inundation of water caused a sewer main in the town to break on Monday morning. Public works officials are still rushing to deal with water pumping problems and preparing for more runoff water to arrive. Everything was overloaded. Our pumping stations were all flooded, George Shivery, Greenwich Mayor, said. And we get a lot of water a day later. Were like the neck of a funnel. Right now, the flooding is not coming from the river, its all runoff. Its a capacity thing. Theres just not enough capacity to hold all the water.
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Any additional rainfall just compounds the problem; the water just has no place to go and drainage systems cannot keep up with it.
After Sunday nights storm, Joe Leone spent Monday morning digging drainage ditches on his Gloucester County farm. Over seven inches of water sat atop his 300 acres of tomato fields in Greenwich Township on Monday morning. Its been going on for a month here, with all the rain weve been getting, Leone said. A little stupid thunderstorm and we get more than seven inches of rain.
Sunday evening, thunderstorms and rain came fast and furiously, says Pennsville Chief of Police Allen J. Cummings. Two to seven inches of water dropped very quickly, causing traffic delays that lasted for hours, stranding motorists and flooding roads. Cummings had to actually dive into the flood waters to rescue two women Sunday afternoon. Ive been here 23 years (on the police force) and weve experienced flooding from tidal storms, but I dont recall a rainstorm causing that amount of flooding in that short of time. It was unreal, he said. The storm caused hours of delays on Route 76, U.S. Route 130 North and I-295.
Greenwich Township was the most highly affected area. Water from East Greenwich, Harrison Township and Glassboro naturally drains through the town into the Delaware River, so when Greenwich is already flooded the water just keeps rising. Complicating the matter, the inundation of water caused a sewer main in the town to break on Monday morning. Public works officials are still rushing to deal with water pumping problems and preparing for more runoff water to arrive. Everything was overloaded. Our pumping stations were all flooded, George Shivery, Greenwich Mayor, said. And we get a lot of water a day later. Were like the neck of a funnel. Right now, the flooding is not coming from the river, its all runoff. Its a capacity thing. Theres just not enough capacity to hold all the water.
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