Margaretville flood update

Above: Reader Catherine Sapinsky send us this photo of the Margaretville skate park, taken this morning at 8am.   

Carol O'Beirne, the Executive Director of the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, emails us with a report of what it looks like on the ground in Margaretville:

It is the East Branch that is overflowing and water is over the village park and is moving quickly between Freshtown and Now and Then Video store. Main Street as of 8:30am this morning was open but Bridge Street is not. Freshtown was filling up tractor trailer trucks with inventory in anticipation of rising waters. And it is still raining ... The Binnekill parking lots of flooded too.

Update: Carol wrote back around 11am to say that Bridge Street has been reopened.

Not everything is about a flood is bad. Today's innundation finally solved an irksome Margaretville problem: It put water in the Binnekill streambed, which has been dry for years due to a legal battle. Here's a photo of the stream, returned to its aquatic glory, by Aaron Bennett:

The Catskill Mountain News, which usually only publishes on Wednesdays, had a breaking-news photo and blurb about the flooding in Margaretville and Arkville on their website today.

Click here for our main story on flooding throughout the Catskills region. We will be posting information about individual towns as we receive it. Email photos, news updates, etc. to us at editor@watershedpost.com, or leave a comment on our website. Thanks!