Two counties in the Adirondack Mountains have been added to New York’s state of emergency and officials in those communities are confronting flooding that closed roads, sent raw sewage spilling into a river and threatened to breach a dam in Long Lake.
Severe storms in New York have closed roads and knocked out power across a broad swath of the state. A state of emergency was issued by Gov. Kathy Hochul Monday for Orange and Ontario Counties as the rain has caused life-threatening flash flooding. The late later added Essex and Clinton counties in the Adirondacks as well as Rockland and Oswego counties to the emergency designation.
The rain is disturbing the Adirondacks and endangering motorists and residents. Some park officials have needed to deal with floods.
The town of Long Lake issued an emergency warning about the spillway dam on Jennings Park Pond to Long Lake becoming breached. Anyone north of the bridge in Long Lake, should seek higher ground, the town said.
The town’s Facebook page alerts that travel in the main intersection of State Route 30 and Route 28N and Main Street is for emergency vehicles only. It reported 28N from Long Lake to Newcomb is closed. There is a breach on Route 30/Main Street between Hoss’s Country Corner and the Long Lake Diner. North Point Road is closed.
“Property owners along Mix Road, Kickerville, Rice, Langley Park, Keller Bay Way should evacuate to higher ground,” the notice said. “Power lines along Newcomb Road are down.”
Ticonderoga notified the public that its sewage treatment system overflowed due to the heavy rains, affecting the Lachute River. Twenty gallons per minute of untreated sewage discharged for six hours into the river on Monday, according to the notice on the NY-Alert site of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The towns of Saranac and Dannemora declared a state of emergency and experienced…
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