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Why they call it the Riverway

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:12pm

The start of the Riverway this afternoon, along the floody Muddy near Park Drive, where a BWSC crew was trying to unclog a pipe that brings the river under the road to the Fens.

Upstream, on the Brookline side of the Big Muddy:

USGS data show the Muddy's almost at flood stage (that thin red line at the very top of the chart):

Muddy chart

Tbobtubb photographed flooding downstream along the Fens.

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Comments

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 5:04pm.

Swamps have their ways of reinventing themselves ... truth in advertizing, though!

You should post that one to Wunderground.

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:07pm.

Or at least it seemed that way from Readville:

By anon on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:18pm.

If (when?) the Muddy hits 15 feet, the D branch of the Green Line will have to be shut-down between Reservoir and Kenmore so the portal at Fenway can be blocked to prevent the subway from flooding (like it did in 1996, and 1962 before that)

By Laura on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:35pm.

This was posted on the MBTA website 20 minutes ago:

"Green Riverside service has been suspended between Reservoir & Kenmore station due to weather related conditions. Substitute bus service will replace regular train service between Reservoir & Kenmore. Please expect delays and allow additional time for your commute. 3/14/2010 9:14 PM"

By Poseidon on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:41pm.

Green Riverside service has been suspended between Reservoir & Kenmore station due to weather related conditions. Substitute bus service will replace regular train service between Reservoir & Kenmore. Please expect delays and allow additional time for your commute. 3/14/2010 9:14 PM

http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/transit_updates/?ttype=subway&route=Green+Line#details

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 10:01pm.

Latest USGS data show it's now higher than the 15-foot mark, which means we've got an official flood on our hands.

I wonder what those portal doors slamming shut are like - anything like the giant door at the Civil Defense emergency-management bunker in Framingham that slams shut in the event of nuclear war?

By J on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 2:13am.

Portal doors?

This is what theyre doing

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=65&...

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:33pm.

At Lower Mills this afternoon.

By Candelaria on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 9:43pm.

Wow! I have never seen it like this. Our basement flooded for the first time.

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:41pm.

Here - I bet that bubbling stuff in the foreground is an overflowing sewer, yum.

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 6:52pm.

Bradley Searles woke up to this.

By adamg on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 8:21pm.

Dan Kennedy takes some video.

By david_yamada on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 11:01pm.

Alas, that of my condo unit.

I'm sure many neighbors are experiencing the same.

By anon on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 12:10am.

Yes. Now I just hope I can find a sump pump tomorrow. Discovered the water after everything closed.

Whit

By david_yamada on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 1:23am.

Our little electric pump could've done the job...if only the bleepin' thing worked.

Instead, it was the old-fashioned style of water removal.

As it will be tomorrow a.m.