Springtown Road gets flooded every year or so, but 2007's flooding was the worst since the 1950s, according to one woman whose basement we un-flooded. The water was so high that the firetrucks hadn't been able to make it there for three days. Normally we would have taken the Wallkill Bridge to get to this area, but the bridge was closed because the area on the other side of it was under 10 inches of water. [Notice in the photo how the road just disappears on the other side of the bridge into a wide lake.]
Most basements in this area have sump pumps that can deal with some flooding, but occasionally the pumps get overwhelmed by the volume of incoming water. One man came home from a trip to Arizona to find two feet of water in his concrete basement even tho the surrounding area was pretty dry. Sometimes, people with dirt-floor basements have water seep up thru the ground as high as the water level outside their homes. We visited a home where water had reached nearly up to the front door even tho the house sat about two feet above the ground. Helpful hint when buying a home: Avoid street names like Springtown Road, Water Street, or Sump-Pump Alley.
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