The Passaic flood of 1903 . 7i), and in some cases to reach to the second this flood period householders who remained at their homeswere compelled to use boats, while in the more exposed places thedanger was too great to admit of remaining, and at one time 1,200 per-sons were housed and fed in the National Guard armory at Paterson. The bridges crossing Passaic River in Passaic, Essex, and Bergencounties were almost completely destroyed, and the damage amountedto $f).54,Sll. Within tiie limits of Paterson, below Great Falls, all ofthe highway bridges except two were either severely
The Passaic flood of 1903 . 7i), and in some cases to reach to the second this flood period householders who remained at their homeswere compelled to use boats, while in the more exposed places thedanger was too great to admit of remaining, and at one time 1,200 per-sons were housed and fed in the National Guard armory at Paterson. The bridges crossing Passaic River in Passaic, Essex, and Bergencounties were almost completely destroyed, and the damage amountedto $f).54,Sll. Within tiie limits of Paterson, below Great Falls, all ofthe highway bridges except two were either severely damaged or com-pletely carried away. West street bi-idgc, the first below the falls, was aMelan concrete, steel-arch structure, built in 1897, and costing $()5, was composed of three spans, each about 90 feet long. The floodpractically split two s])ans longitudinally, the upstream side of each,equal to about one-third of the width of the l)ridgc, being carried U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-^UPPLY PAPER NO. 92 PL. )V. A. WASHOUT AT SPRUCE STREET, PATERSON, N^ J.
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