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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue May 20, 2014, 10:19 AM May 2014

Parts Of The Canal System Still Closed

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Stretches of the New York State Canal system remain closed by high water from heavy rains that fell across the region last week.

The state Canal Corp. says Monday that the Erie Canal is closed from Lock E-7 in Niskayuna in Schenectady County to Lock E-30 in Macedon in Wayne County, and from Lock E-32 at Pittsford to the Genesee River.

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Parts Of The Canal System Still Closed (Original Post) hrmjustin May 2014 OP

Holy crap! That's most of the canal! Cooley Hurd May 2014 #1

Seems like a bad season for the canal. hrmjustin May 2014 #2

Can't be as bad as 2006... Cooley Hurd May 2014 #3

The rain this year with the snow melt was awful across the state. hrmjustin May 2014 #4

Nearby - Mohawk Valley and Keuka Lake valley have been flooded... Cooley Hurd May 2014 #5

I heard that several counties needed fema help. hrmjustin May 2014 #6

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. Holy crap! That's most of the canal!

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 10:39 AM

May 2014

Returning snowbirds (via boat) will have to wait to get thru...

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. Seems like a bad season for the canal.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Tue May 20, 2014, 10:41 AM

May 2014

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

3. Can't be as bad as 2006...

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #2)

Tue May 20, 2014, 10:55 AM

May 2014

The flooding was catastrophic. A whole floating marina in Albany was wrenched from its mooring and floated south. I had my boat on Sacandaga Lake that season and the flooding was bad there too.