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RECENT RAINSTORMS HAVE given new meaning to the term “waterfall.” The Otter Creek Falls in Middlebury have been as violent
and noisy as they have ever been.
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THE RAGING MIDDLEBURY falls after the torrential rains in July.
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WATER INUNDATES A wetland area in Salisbury, a fairly common sight in these parts in the wake of an unrelenting period of rainfall.
Independent photo/Steve James
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Rains over the past 10 days have sent the water in Lake Dunmore to historic levels, sending docks adrift, flooding some lower-lying homes, and causing shoreline erosion. Unfortunately, too many boaters early on were unaware of the damage caused by driving their boats or jet-skis too fast, including pulling skiers and tubers, and sending wakes into submerged docks and against fragile shorelines. State officials belatedly got the message and closed the lake to motorboats by Tuesday, but not before many lake residents were more than frustrated as seen by this sign on a Lake Dunmore home. Lake levels will likely stay too high for boaters for much of this week and into the weekend, if projected rains hit again this weekend.
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FLOODED LAND JUST north of Morse Road in July.
Photos courtesy of the Vermont Civil Air Patrol.
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LOOKING EAST OF South Street Extension (south of Porter Hospital).
Photos courtesy of the Vermont Civil Air Patrol.
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RISING WATER LEVELS on the pedestrian footbridge across the Otter Creek below Middlebury Falls.
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THE SWOLLEN OTTER Creek that normally drops a full 12-feet off the falls.
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FOLKS TAKING IN the raging waters below the Middlebury falls.
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THE MUDSLIDE THAT wrecked a Ripton home on Route 125.
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THE MIDDLEBURY FALLS spread as wide as most residents have ever seen it.
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THE OTTER CREEK looking west along Morgan Horse Farm Road.
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THE FALLS BELOW the Pulp Mill Bridge.
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THE FLOODED OTTER Creek below the Pulp Mill Bridge on the Middlebury/Weybridge town line.
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TURBULENT WATERS GOING over Middlebury Falls turned chocolate with all the farmland runoff.
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FLOODED SPORTS FIELDS at Middlebury Union High School.
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A FLOODED FIELD and haycutter on Blake Roy Road in Middlebury.
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AS OF WEDNESDAY morning, July 19, the pedestrian bridge from Middlebury’s Mill Street to the Marble Works was closed until further notice due to concern of potential damage to the support structure from the recent flooding. The bridge will reopen once it is inspected and can be assured it is safe. Independent photo/Megan James
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THIS BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW arced in gentle evening light over the Elderly Services Inc. property in Middlebury following the long and
violent thunderstorm on Thursday, July 13.
Photo by Ken Schoen
