"Normally, it's 4 million gallons an hour.'' "We had 13 million gallons an hour going through the system,'' the mayor said. Monday.īoughton said the city's waste disposal plant - unable to handle all the storm runoff - went into bypass mode, letting the storm and wastewater simply flow into the Still River. "There's really not much more we can do.''īoughton said the flooding started around 2:30 a.m. "They'll stay blocked until the water recedes,'' said Mayor Mark Boughton. In Danbury, the flooding Still River closed Newtown Road near Walmart, as well as the section of Federal Road near Stew Leonard's.
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The storm closed roads in several other places in the area. Buses from Branchville will deliver commuters to the remaining stops at Redding, Bethel and Danbury. from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to the Branchville station in Ridgefield. However, it will run its heaviest commuter runs - at 7:10 a.m. Metro-North will use buses to shuttle passengers along the Danbury-Norwalk line for the coming week. "There is a long section of track with no underpinning," Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said Monday. Monday morning's rain also washed out about 150 feet of the Metro-North rail line between Bethel and Redding on the Danbury line. In New Milford, a one-car accident shut down traffic on Route 67, while police in Ridgefield, Bethel, Danbury and Southbury also reported numerous minor crashes. One person had to be taken to the hospital, police said. In New Fairfield, Route 37 was expected to remain closed for several hours after a car sheared off a utility local pole near the Sherman line.