Dutchmen Lend a Hand to Schoharie Clean Up
When the Schoharie Creek overtopped its banks on Aug. 28 and spread out over the surrounding flatlands. Out on the streets of the village of Schoharie, which was itself a river at the height of the flood, the muck has mostly turned to dust, which now clouds the air as heavy equipment scoops up the remaining heaps of debris, but inside the homes and offices, it is still muck, and much of it has seeped into walls and floors, making houses uninhabitable and offices unworkable.

More than 13 inches of rain fell in the Catskills in one great deluge from the skirts of Hurricane Irene, and much of that water rushed down the watershed of the Schoharie Creek, heading for the Mohawk River. The Gilboa Dam, built in the 1920s to augment the water supply of New York City and recently reinforced, held, but the water had to go somewhere, and it went down Main Street in Schoharie, among other places, even though Main Street is about half a mile from the creek. The Varsity and JV teams went to Schoharie on the Sept. 17th to help with the ongoing relief effort.