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Flood waters

Jul 20, 2023 | Photos of the Week

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. Independent photo/Steve James
THE RAGING MIDDLEBURY falls after the torrential rains in July. Independent photo/Steve James
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

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. Photo submitted
FLOODED LAND JUST north of Morse Road in July. Photos courtesy of the Vermont Civil Air Patrol.
LOOKING EAST OF South Street Extension (south of Porter Hospital). Photos courtesy of the Vermont Civil Air Patrol.

RISING WATER LEVELS on the pedestrian footbridge across the Otter Creek below Middlebury Falls. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
THE SWOLLEN OTTER Creek that normally drops a full 12-feet off the falls. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
FOLKS TAKING IN the raging waters below the Middlebury falls. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM

THE MUDSLIDE THAT wrecked a Ripton home on Route 125. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
THE MIDDLEBURY FALLS spread as wide as most residents have ever seen it. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
THE OTTER CREEK looking west along Morgan Horse Farm Road. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM

THE FALLS BELOW the Pulp Mill Bridge. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
THE FLOODED OTTER Creek below the Pulp Mill Bridge on the Middlebury/Weybridge town line. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
TURBULENT WATERS GOING over Middlebury Falls turned chocolate with all the farmland runoff. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM

FLOODED SPORTS FIELDS at Middlebury Union High School. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
A FLOODED FIELD and haycutter on Blake Roy Road in Middlebury. ©2023 ERICKILLORIN.COM
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

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

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