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Several years ago -- maybe even 10 -- I felt it necessary to establish a website about building expansion at Schoharie school so I did that, and called it the Tattler. I was thinking of Addison and Steele's Tatler, published a few hundred years ago in London.

We shook things up a little, the school quieted down, and we discontinued the Tattler. Then, at the end of 2005, the Gilboa Dam crisis erupted and we started the Code Orange web site, later called Gilboa Dam Watcher. As we were phasing that out, the quarry issue erupted, the village decided to diddle unfair water rates to benefit owners of apartment buildings at expense of single-family homes, and the new school superintendent decided there could be yet another building project, this at "no cost" to residents. In the circumstances, I decided to reestablish the Tattler.

Lester E. Hendrix,
PO Box 711,
Schoharie NY 12157

Lester@SchoharieTattler.com
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Heavy Snow: Gilboa Dam Siphons Operating
4 March 2010
Updated 5 March

The water level in mountain snow is at about three times normal this year, causing New York City to increase the release of water from Schoharie and other reservoirs.

Snow melt into Schoharie Reservoir was a significant factor in the 1996 flood of Schoharie Valley. The city said it is using the Gilboa Dam siphons to reduce the reservoir level. The four siphons can draw about 200 million gallons a day from the reservoir into the Schoharie Creek, however only three were working on Friday, March 5.

The reservoir level may be viewed on a graph on the Dam Tattler.  Flood stage is 1130.5 feet and the record, during the 1996 flood, was 1136.6 feet.

Read New York City's statement.