Background / Problem – The City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., is in the process of developing a flood management plan for the streams that flow through the City. Flooding in the City is caused by a variety of distinct and sometimes interconnected reasons. Flooding often is a result of snowmelt and rain during the winter and spring. Slow ice-melt and breakup can lead to ice jams and subsequent flooding. Flash floods are produced by summer thunderstorms. All of these flood types are compounded by two factors: the storm-sewer system in the City and the elevation of Cayuga Lake. The storm sewers drain to the nearby streams at points below the tops of the streambanks. Because the streamward ends of the storm sewers...
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Tags: Cascadilla Creek,
Cayuga Inlet,
Cooperative Water Program,
Fall Creek,
Flood Science, All tags...
Flood Science,
Flood Science,
Floods and Droughts,
Ithaca,
New York,
Sixmile Creek,
Stream Hydraulics,
Stream Hydraulics,
Tompkins County,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC,
Water Use and Availability Science,
Water Use and Availability Science,
discharge,
flood-management,
flooding,
hydraulic model,
storm-sewer,
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