Bear Creek's day of rage
Despite cosmetic damage to the facade of the Bear Creek Lake dam, the structure held up during intense rain and flooding in 2002.
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Bear Creek Village Mayor Walter Mitchell reflects on the intense rainstorm and subsequent flooding that struck the borough in 2002, similar to the recent disaster in Plymouth. ' class='PopBoxImageSmall' pbShowPopImage='true' title='Click to magnify and shrink' onclick='Pop(this,15,"PopBoxImageLarge");' border='1' />“It’s uncannily similar” to what he witnessed nine years ago, Mitchell said.
A series of slow-moving thunderstorms had hovered over Bear Creek on May 28, 2002, dumping 5 inches of rain in an hour and 12 inches throughout the day, he said.
Several normally calm tributaries that feed into Bear Creek Lake became powerful torrents, carrying massive boulders, uprooting mature trees, flooding homes and yards and tearing up bridges and roadways.
The dam that supports the lake held strong, but the spillover gushed into Bear Creek, causing it to rise as high as the dam, Mitchell said. The water ripped apart a bridge and asphalt on state Route 115 and flooded several more properties as it continued its path.
In Plymouth, 5 to 7 inches of rain in a short period of time last Sunday night caused massive runoff from Plymouth Mountain into the Coal Street Creek. The creek swelled, wiping out infrastructure and damaging properties along its banks.
Freak occurrencesIn both places, the flooding was a freak, unfamiliar occurrence, he said.
“We had people who never had water near their homes and certainly not in their basements who now experienced this catastrophic event,” Mitchell said.
The mayor had been working in Plains Township that afternoon when his son called to alert him to the chaos unfolding in the borough. It was sunny in Plains.
“I thought he was pulling my leg,” he recalled.
On a recent before-and-after retrospective drive through the borough, the mayor stopped at the Beaupland Road home of John and Victoria Glod.
Sand Spring Run Creek, one of the lake’s feeder tributaries, runs through their property.
The rain burst through an upstream dam, and the rushing creek blew through a bridge and Beaupland Road, leaving an 80-foot gap in the roadway, Mitchell said.
“There were thousands of tons of boulders and debris and water that tore this whole area up,” Mitchell recalled.
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The state quickly repaired state Route 115, but seeking government assistance for other repairs was an “agonizing process,” Mitchell said. “It reminds me of the Southwest Airlines commercial where a gigantic ball of red tape is about to roll over you,
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