I guess whatever trouble mankind has, we had up there.” The lighting proposition was out of order, and no trolley cars. Of course we had no light there in the city for several days. They had their hose wagons and the firemen had to dive down to the fire plugs to attach the hose. “I know during the flood we had three or four fires there that the only way they could get apparatus to was through the flooded streets. “Many people figured that it was like other freshets we had and there wouldn't be any necessity of leaving their homes, so they stuck to their homes, so we went through the flooded districts with boats and distributed milk and supplies where we knew there were children and babies that needed it, so when the water receded we got some of these people out who were sick and sent them to hospitals when the waters receded some.” Fitzgerald, Commissioner of Charities of the City of Troy: The Water Control Commission hearings in 1922, part of the proceedings leading up to the creation of regulating districts, provided some first-hand accounts of the flood of 1913, as excerpted below.įrom Water Control Commission Hearings, testimony of Gerald B. The devastation prompted legislation that set the foundation for establishing what would eventually become the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District (HRBRRD). Several hundred cases of typhoid were reported, likely the result of the Albany city filtration plant being overwhelmed by floodwaters. Several bridges, highways and rail lines were damaged or destroyed by the flood. 28, 1913, at site about 14 mi upstream) and on the Mohawk River at Little Falls, NY (per USGS: maximum discharge (since at least 1898) before regulation by Hinckley Reservoir, 34,800 feet3/s, Mar. 27, 1913, gage height, 11.0 feet, from flood marks at site then in use), the Hudson River at Fort Edward, NY (per USGS: maximum discharge, 89,100 feet3/s, Mar. Maximum flows of record still stand for the Sacandaga River at Hope, NY (per USGS: maximum discharge, 32,000 feet3/s, Mar. The rare combination of simultaneous flooding on both the upper Hudson River and Mohawk River led to a crest that remains the flood flow of record on the Hudson River at Albany, with an elevation of 21.45 feet and an estimated (tide affected) flood flow of 240,000 cubic feet per second. Flooding affected the Hudson, Genesee, Black and Mohawk Rivers.
Heavy rain and snowmelt on ground already saturated from rainfall earlier in the month led to disastrous flooding on March 27-28, 1913. “Whatever trouble mankind has, we had up there”
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