在莫霍克河冰堵塞监测
冰堵洪水洪水是莫霍克河沿着莫霍克河的低洼地区的威胁和财产，特别是在纽约斯卡内切的寨子区附近。从冰堵塞的回物可能导致果酱的上游洪水，从堵塞的堵塞突然释放，可以在下游威胁到期威胁和财产。历史上，紧急经理通过现场观察监测冰堵塞和相关的水位，这可能是低效的，并且没有描述冰堵塞条件的空间或时间范围，这可以遍布几河里程。During the winter of 2012, the New York Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with NYSDEC's Mohawk River Basin Program, the New York State Power Authority, Brookfield Renewable Power and Union College launched a monitoring tool to help emergency managers assess river conditoins and the potential for ice jam flooding in the vicinity of the Stockade District in Schenectady. A web camera located between Lock 8 and Freeman's Bridge combined with four USGS stream gages along the Mohawk River between Lock 8 and the Vischer's Ferry Dam, 11 miles downstream from Lock 8, provides an alternative to the previous on-site observations made by emergency managers. Data from these stream gages are used as input to simple models that estimate the amount of ice-related backwater between each stream gage. Graphs depicting the changing backwater conditiosn are updated every 20 minutes on the project webpage. Additionally, the web camera located in the Stockade District provides real-time images of the river during the winter months. This monitoring tool is available to the public as a web-based product at:http://ny.water.usgs.gov/flood/mohawkice/
