Floody River

The normally placid Muddy River, well, it remained pretty placid today as it overflowed its banks along the Brookline/Fenway line, as Ari Ofsevit shows us after the bulk of today's rains.

Over the past eight years, the Army Corps of Engineers has conducted extensive work along the tiny river - including "daylighting" the river where it used to flow under ground past what used to be the Sears building - to reduce the chances that the river would cause catastrophic flooding in the area, like it did in 1996, when the Kenmore T station became filled with water, knocking it out of commission for weeks.

Still, just in case, the MBTA also installed flood walls that can be swung into place at the portal where the D Line goes underground towards Fenway, so workers no longer have to rush sandbags there.

Muddy River level, from USGS: