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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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Reservoir Spilling at Notch and Rising
15 March 2010

The runoff of rain and melting snow into the Schoharie Reservoir has been accelerating as expected since Sunday morning. The reservoir is now rising a foot in three hours and has been spilling through the notch since about 6:30 p.m. today.

Weather service predicts the inflow to level off and not reach flood levels. However, we know from experience that the reliability of the predicted reservoir level is only mediocre; that the reservoir can rise at a much faster rate than one foot in three hours; and that if the fill rate continues at a foot in three hours, we will be in a flood situation before noon tomorrow (Tuesday).

Therefore, please watch the situation closely tonight and early tomorrow.