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Heavy rains today have brought some flooding in urban areas across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. WNPR’s Nancy Cohen reports in a few places the sewage system has been affected.
In Connecticut the ground is saturated and there’s still a lot of debris left over from Tropical Storm Irene, clogging up storm drains. That means there aren’t a lot of places for storm water to go. Dennis Greci with Connecticut’s environmental agency says in some cases flooded streets have drained into the sewage system and overflowed.
“We do have raw sewage going into the rivers and onto the streets.”
Greci advises people to avoid walking through large puddles of water on the roads.
Meteorologist Alan Dunham with the National Weather Service says the bigger rivers like the Farmington and the Connecticut are expected to flood and stretches will remain in flood stage for a few days.
“The Connecticut River is slow to rise, but it’s such a big river it takes along time for it to dump all that water into the ocean.”
Dunham says the Connecticut River in Middletown is expected to be in moderate flood stage, that’s above twelve feet, until Sunday.
