At what point is the river flooding?

FALLS VILLAGE — The Great Falls on the Housatonic River in Falls Village and Salisbury were already roaring last week before the rains that came down on Tuesday morning, Sept. 18, on the edges of Hurricane Florence. 

There is an official gage that measures the height of the Housatonic River in Falls Village, below the power plant. On Tuesday at 8:15 a.m., while roads were flooding from the heavy rain, the river was at 3 feet, and was actually lower than it had been on Saturday, Sept. 15, when the water was at 3.39 feet. 

Farther south, in Gaylordsville near Kent, the river was at 3.86 feet on Saturday, had dipped to 3 feet by Tuesday at 8:15 a.m. and was expected to rise to 5 feet by the end of the week.

Flood stage for the Housatonic at Falls Village is 7 feet; the river was nowhere near that height Tuesday and seemed unlikely to get there this week.

The highest the river has ever reached at Falls Village is 19 feet, in 1949. 

The highest crests in recent years have been 7.59 feet in February 2016; 7.84 feet in April 2014; and 8.75 feet in 2013.