Essay On Schenectady Development
I recently gained awareness of the future casino development in Schenectady. Many of those developments will be placed in the 100 year floodplain,which can potentially cause further problems when the new developments face ice jams. New development will definitely benefit us,however, in the long run those same developments can potentially affect the residents of Schenectady. Reparations can potentially cost more money than you can ever possibly make by expanding Mohawk Harbors.
Ice jams can have many negative effects on infrastructure and the lives of many people that live around the areas. Ice jams are sheets of ice that is produced during the winter. Ice jams are formed when the the frozen ice breaks up.The ice will back up water and once the ice break it will release the water at a high velocity causing increase in stage elevation causing discharge. Over load of water might end up in the floodplain due to the water that is released from the ice jam once it breaks up. Without the building of new development a flooding will just be a natural process having little to no effect if building weren't to be build in those areas. Another problem that can result from this is that the new development prevents water …show more content…
from draining away easily due to the fact that there are more building preventing that from happening. That means that water will stay for a longer period of time delaying any possible reparations of infrastructure.
January 1996 was the worst recent flood that causes an inundation due to a break up in the Mohawk River causing major damage in the Stockade.This happened due to constriction from the Old Burr Bridge.
Constriction is a significant problem that comes along with new development because new development are built in places that are supposed to be free for free flow of materials in the river. With new development we are becoming more vulnerable to losing our properties to flooding due to ice jams affected by constriction. Reparations will cost more money. Getting people back on their feet after floodings and repairing their homes will take years.The casino itself is built in a 100 year floodplain, which are floods that have one percent of occurrence in a
year
Floods are natural because they are part of the hydrological cycle. However, due to many anthropogenic causes humans have been altering many of the natural process that occur. Humans are either speeding of the process of occurrence or are making the effects worse by building new developments ne places that have people when they could had been development free. Ice jams are annual recurrence and although there is little we can do to prevent it we can contribute by minimizing the amount of developments that will be affected by annual flooding of the mohawk river.
Ice jams can have many negative effects on infrastructure and the lives of many people that live around the areas. Ice jams are sheets of ice that is produced during the winter. Ice jams are formed when the the frozen ice breaks up.The ice will back up water and once the ice break it will release the water at a high velocity causing increase in stage elevation causing discharge. Over load of water might end up in the floodplain due to the water that is released from the ice jam once it breaks up. Without the building of new development a flooding will just be a natural process having little to no effect if building weren't to be build in those areas. Another problem that can result from this is that the new development prevents water …show more content…
from draining away easily due to the fact that there are more building preventing that from happening. That means that water will stay for a longer period of time delaying any possible reparations of infrastructure.
January 1996 was the worst recent flood that causes an inundation due to a break up in the Mohawk River causing major damage in the Stockade.This happened due to constriction from the Old Burr Bridge.
Constriction is a significant problem that comes along with new development because new development are built in places that are supposed to be free for free flow of materials in the river. With new development we are becoming more vulnerable to losing our properties to flooding due to ice jams affected by constriction. Reparations will cost more money. Getting people back on their feet after floodings and repairing their homes will take years.The casino itself is built in a 100 year floodplain, which are floods that have one percent of occurrence in a
year
Floods are natural because they are part of the hydrological cycle. However, due to many anthropogenic causes humans have been altering many of the natural process that occur. Humans are either speeding of the process of occurrence or are making the effects worse by building new developments ne places that have people when they could had been development free. Ice jams are annual recurrence and although there is little we can do to prevent it we can contribute by minimizing the amount of developments that will be affected by annual flooding of the mohawk river.