" == Flooding of 2011 & other comments == Mention of the severe flooding of 2011 (Hurricane Irene followed immediately by Tropical Storm Lee) should be made as it was worse than 1955's flooding. It effected the availability of some crops in the US as well as their prices, onions and pumpkins spring to mind. Where I live, the fields a mile from the Wallkill were under four feet of water. And I don't see anything about continuing proposals for dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers to try to mitigate the flooding. The History section, 3rd paragraph, begins with: ""Settlers recognized the agricultural possibilities of the Drowned Lands almost as soon as they moved in."" This is
" == Flooding of 2011 & other comments == Mention of the severe flooding of 2011 (Hurricane Irene followed immediately by Tropical Storm Lee) should be made as it was worse than 1955's flooding. It effected the availability of some crops in the US as well as their prices, onions and pumpkins spring to mind. Where I live, the fields a mile from the Wallkill were under four feet of water. And I don't see anything about continuing proposals for dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers to try to mitigate the flooding. The History section, 3rd paragraph, begins with: ""Settlers recognized the agricultural possibilities of the Drowned Lands almost as soon as they moved in."" This is a