NOTE: The information posted on the U.S. Geological Survey website, the basis of which was used for this article, changed between Tuesday morning and Tuesday night. The article was revised to reflect the new data.
The Housatonic River at the Stevenson Dam crested at 20.94 feet at 8 p.m. Monday, the sixth-highest level ever recorded, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Naugatuck River in Beacon Falls Sunday hit its second-highest level ever recorded.
The Housy
The river measured 12.56 feet at 9:45 a.m. (Tuesday, Aug. 30). It is expected to dip to 10.9 feet by 2 p.m.
Two floods from 2011 are now on the Housy’s top ten list:
1. 24.5 on 10/16/1955
2. 24.5 on 8/19/1955
3. 23.5 on 3/12/1936
4. 22.36 on 5/30/1984
6. 20.94 on 8/29/2011
7. 21.5 on 9/22/1938
8. 19.98 on 4/16/2007
9. 18.88 on 1/27/1996
10. 18.09 on 10/15/2005
The City of Derby closed it flood gates for the first time since they were installed in 1973.
The Naugatuck
The Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls crested at 14.36 feet at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 28.
It hit 25.7 feet during the August Flood of ’55.
Here’s what it was doing in Seymour Sunday afternoon:
Here is the Naugy’s list:
1. 25.7 feet on 8/19/1955
2. 14.36 on 8/28/2011
3. 14.1 on 3/12/1996
4. 13.78 on 1/25/1979
5. 12.95 on 6/05/1982
6. 12.6 on 3/7/2011
7.12.21 on 4/23/2006
8. 12.10 on 4/16/2007
9. 12/08 on 4/07/1924
The Naugatuck River was at 7 feet Aug. 30, well below its 12-foot flood stage.
This entire artical is wrong, the number you quote is a glitch on the data, there is no way the river crested at this height at the time reported here, looking at the data before and after we can see that this data point is invalid:
08/29 23:45 16.28ft 32.5kcfs
08/29 23:30 16.3ft 32.6kcfs
08/29 23:16 23.4ft 70.1kcfs
08/29 23:15 16.28ft 32.5kcfs
08/29 23:00 16.28ft 32.5kcfs
The real crest was at 4:30pm at 20.94ft:
08/28 20:45 20.93ft 55.6kcfs
08/28 20:30 20.92ft 55.5kcfs
08/28 20:15 20.87ft 55.3kcfs
08/28 20:00 20.94ft 55.7kcfs
08/28 19:45 20.89ft 55.4kcfs
08/28 19:31 20.72ft 54.4kcfs
Making this the 6th worst flood on record, just shorter then the flood in March at 21.61
Hi, We used info from Tuesday morning directly from this website — http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=aly&gage=stvc3&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1”
A line was shown on the graph. When you moused over a point, it showed the numbers we quoted, including the time and date.
That data is no longer on the website. We revised this story Tuesday night to reflect the new data.