id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 19878 Leighton, Marshall Ora The Passaic Flood of 1903 .txt text/plain 20411 1806 81 feet of water per second, but at the height of this flood it carried water from the Pompton flood being forced back into Great Piece Meadows. drainage area above Dundee dam during the earlier flood was things considered, the prevention of flood damages in the Passaic Basin The river carries the usual flood waters, and no damage principal areas where storage reservoirs for flood catchment may be which the waters are carried into the central basin by Pompton River; flood waters of the Pompton, which now flow large areas of flat the time of maximum flood would not back water into New York State to a These basins are not available for flood catchment, as the water is used for the construction of flood-catchment reservoirs in Pequanac Basin areas to hold back flood waters, while the capacity of others would be can not be made to carry great flood waters without damage. ./cache/19878.txt ./txt/19878.txt