The coffee-with-cream-colored Delaware River topped its banks along parts of its length from Port Jervis , N.Y. , to New Jersey 's state capital here , where the river crested 25.5 feet , almost six feet above the point at which it floods , at 4:30 p.m. That made Monday 's flood the third worst along the Delaware in 100 years , after a 30.3-foot crest here in March 1904 , and the 28.5-feet crest in August 1955 , following Hurricanes Connie and Diane .