Last Friday I rubbed my eyes after seeing a “shadow” on a section of the KVK. Results of dredging, I wondered? An issue of oil? Problems in my perception? Some time later, I looked back and the color differentiation of waters
had moved. That recalled this scene back in June . . . a v-shaped force that swung large ships, each in the same direction as it was engulfed.
And back to Friday, here’s how the water streaks evolved. It must be fresh river waters . . . with their silt load, I then concluded. Click here for Vlad’s post commenting on the same phenomenon. And Fred tug44 sent these fotos from Waterford . . . And this pic (by Patrick Dodson) of khaki waters overwhelming Lock 8 in Rotterdam.
So I decided on a gallivant up to see where this water painting the sixth boro came from. Note the Hudson Light in the distance left. (Doubleclick enlarges.) Here’s the marina in Hudson, NY, with mud
stains showing the ramp and half the parking lot had been inundated.
As was the case in Catskill Creek, given debris and docks askew there.
Along the Hudson, here’s a clue to water level along the waterfront in Athens.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Alas, clean-up and reconstruction will last longer than the silt coloration in the sixth boro. Click here and here for some of the last fotos I took up in that stretch of the River, almost a year ago.
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September 12, 2011 at 11:20 am
Bonnie K. Frogma
Fascinating satellite shot of the Connecticut River.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=52059&src=eorss-iotd
Note that the Thames River is running perfectly clean.
September 12, 2011 at 11:34 am
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September 12, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Jim (RF-246 owner)
Bonnie beat me to it with the link I was going to suggest but I can add to it that, lest anyone doubt it, the the Landsat 5 image is indeed true-color. We keep a boat on the Connecticut River in Essex and it was floating in a chocolate milkshake exactly that color when we got to it on Fri 9/2 which is the day the Landsat photo was taken. The silt was so heavy that you could not even see 1/2 inch into the river water. We also understand that the silty water moved into the Essex area all of a sudden on Tues 8/30. Even on 9/10 when exiting the river into the Sound, the demarcation line was like it had been drawn with a ruler. The interesting thing about the landsat photo is to look at how dispersed into the Sound the silty river water becomes. Over a number of tide changes, it worked its way from Fishers Island and through Plum Gut and widely through Gardiners Bay.