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Ionmars10 the flooding ended July 11, so unless you’re including all NEUS floods in July 2023, the bucksncounty floods should be removed, and maybe a new article could be made for the July 15-16 floods, especially given Islip had their 9th wettest day on record already. 63.118.20.162 (talk) 18:44, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Wrightsville Dam was not ever in danger of breaking from this flood. This concern appears to have originated by a statement from the City Manager Bill Frasier who sent out an alert that the Wrightsville Dam was about to 'Breech'. He appeared to mean it was about to spill over the spillway, but not break the dam. The spillway is at a set elevation, it has a concrete area water could spill over, there is no way to open or close it. The water got within a foot (maybe within inches!) of this spillway. If it had overflowed, a great deal more water would have flooded into Montpelier, especially the lower lying areas along Elm Street near Spring Street where major inundation could have occurred beyond what already happened. However the dam is very large and the top of the actual dam is many many feet higher than the spillway. There is no reason to believe the spillway wouldn't have worked properly, but if it had overflowed the flooding could have been even worse than it already was, and also a bunch of debris like trees floating behind the dam could have been pushed into the city as well. A disaster, but not on the scale of a massive dam break. It was not like Oroville in California almost was.
I don't know the protocol for editing Wikipedia so i am not editing the page directly. Maybe someone can fix this? Charlie, Montpelier Vermont — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.53.119.37 (talk) 01:21, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
