Clogged Culvert Blamed for WRJ Flooding

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Quoted from Daybreak Upper Valley:

And with heavy rainstorms becoming more frequent, "It's not just people next to the White River that have to worry," Dartmouth College geographer Sarah Kelly notes in the wake of this weekend's flash flood.
"When culverts fail they change the distribution of who's affected both upstream and downstream from that culvert," Kelly, a research scientist with the Dartmouth-affiliated Rural Rivers Program, explains. 
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Starting last fall, Dr. Kelly brought an initiative called Culvert Crawlers to Hartford. It seeks to link local volunteers with town officials to form a sort of neighborhood watch program for culvert infrastructure.
"We're looking for community partners to help us do the work," Kelly said this week, something that residents in Ludlow have already begun doing along the Black River watershed, where a half-dozen volunteers have joined 50 Dartmouth students in recent years performing culvert mapping, observation, and maintenance tasks.
Already about a hundred culverts in Hartford have been mapped into an app that Culvert Crawlers is helping to develop. It allows volunteers to use their phones to track and report the status of their neighborhood infrastructure using an "Adopt a Culvert" model, Kelly said.
The National Science Foundation has given the program a three-year grant to expand and develop the program, and Kelly urged anyone in Hartford who would like to participate to contact her via email at sarah.H.Kelly@dartmouth.edu 

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