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Groundwater response to extreme rainfall event – eastern Sussex County
During an extreme rainfall event that occurred September 29-30, 2016, more than 12 inches in one day, caused the water table to rise over 5 feet near Harbeson, Delaware. A subsequent 3.6 inch storm on October 8 - 9 caused the water table to rise above land surface and flood the area for nearly 8 hours.
Analysis of Tides and Storm Surge from Observations Records in the Delaware Inland Bays
John Callahan, of the Delaware Geological Survey, presented a talk on "Analysis of Tides and Storm Surge from Observations Records in the Delaware Inland Bays", at the Coastal GeoTools conference (http://coastalgeotools.org/) in Charleston, SC, sponsored by NOAA and Association of State Floodplain Managers.
Hurricane Sandy Q&A - Experts at UD aid state, National Weather Service during storm
4:37 p.m., Oct. 31, 2012--The Office of the State Climatologist and the Delaware Geological Survey (DGS), both based at the University of Delaware, provided the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) and the National Weather Service with weather, coastal flooding and stream flooding information for Delaware during Hurricane Sandy.