The river flooded market gardens and farms throughout its hills course causing extensive damage.
Stunned motorists and area residents who witnessed the collapse said as many as four cars and a tractor-trailer truck might have fallen into Schoharie Creek, a rushing muddy stream that had swollen to triple its normal size and flooded farms and nearby cornfields a half-mile wide.
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The toxic sludge that burst from a mine reservoir and flooded rivers and farms in southern Spain late last month will take more than $100 million to clean up, according to the Spanish Government.
The storm killed three people, breached levees, flooded farms, washed out roads and forced hundreds of evacuations.
Nearby Helidon had several homes and farms flooded but did not break the main creek bank and enter the town.
It is the main source of water supply for the region and brings large amounts of silt deposited in the plains and flooded farms along its banks Wiczidha fertility.
The waters had flooded villages and farms as they spilled down from the Ose.
The reservoir flooded many buildings and farms of Barkhamsted, including the village of Barkhamsted Hollow.