Flood in Saratoga County, New York

A local news station reporter was seen reporting from Riverview Road in the town of Halfmoon in Saratoga County on the evening of March 9th. In their report, they stated that Riverview Road was closed near Boyack Road in Halfmoon. Here, water from a small stream stemming off the Mohawk River was overrunning a low point in the road, causing the closure. According to the report, water was beginning to recede just before 7 PM when it had, just an hour prior, been rather high.

After a very cold winter, a significant amount of ice, with substantial depth, developed on main-stem rivers across eastern New York. Periodic multi-day stretches of late-season, above-normal temperatures subsequently led to considerable ice melt over a short amount of time. This ultimately led to flooding in Schenectady and Saratoga Counties in early March after an ice jam broke loose on the Mohawk River. NWS Albany was made aware of the flooding and its requisite impacts from communication with both local news outlets and emergency managers in the area. As a direct result of the ice jam flooding, the SUNY Schenectady campus was closed on March 9th with all classes on campus cancelled due to associated parking lots and roadways inundated with low amounts of standing water. Additionally, NWS Albany was made aware that Rosendale Road between Mohawk Road and Niskayuna Road was closed due to flooding from this same ice jam. However, local emergency managers in the area stated that this flooding was more minor compared to the flooding in Saratoga County. Here, the town of Halfmoon sustained more significant impacts with the closure of Riverview Road near Boyack Road. In a recording of a local news report, water from a small stream stemming off the Mohawk River was overrunning a low point in the road to a fairly significant extent. The water was also moving at the time of the broadcast and the reporter noted that it had begun to recede compared to what it had been. Luckily, it only took about 24 hours or so for the flooding to recede from all areas, allowing the aforementioned roadways and the SUNY Schenectady Campus to promptly re-open by the following morning.