Oct 17, 2005 10:51 am US/Eastern
Weekend Floods Cost State At Least $6.5 Million
BOSTON (CBS4) ―
Governor Romney says weekend rain and floods left about about $6.5 million in damage to the state's roads and bridges.
Romney plans to ask for federal aid to help dozens of cities and towns recover.
Most rivers and streams are now receding. But the National Weather Service says a flood warning remains in effect until 2 p.m. for the Taunton River.
The cleanup continued Monday in several communities.
Power is back on and streets are open, but several homeowners are still struggling with flood-damaged basements.
School has been cancelled in Uxbridge and the Tantasqua Regional School District, because of flooding-related problems.
In Uxbridge, officials determined that a dam's structural integrity had been compromised. That forced them to shut down East Hartford Avenue, a heavily traveled road in town.
School officials needed to cancel classes for the day to re-work bus routes, because the road work is expected to last up to two months.
Authorities are also monitoring the environmental impact of the weekend rain.
A power outage at the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant in Boston caused about 25 million gallons of untreated sewage to spill into Boston Harbor.
It took several hours to return to normal operations, so plant operators were forced to drain holding pools into the harbor, rather than have them back up into streets and neighborhoods.
In Worcester, a treatment plant backed up and spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Blackstone River.
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