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Flood — Washington, Rhode Island
March 29, 2010 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Five to ten inches of rain fell across Washington County, resulting in rises on the Pawcatuck River at Westerly and at Wood River Junction. The Pawcatuck River set a record of nearly fifteen and a half feet at Westerly and just over eleven feet at Wood River Junction. ||The Pawcatuck River overflowed its banks in Charlestown, closing Route 91 and Shannock Road. Numerous basements were flooded in South Kingstown, Narragansett, and Charlestown. Numerous roads were flooded in Exeter, Charlestown, Hopkinton, Narragansett, South Kingstown, and North Kingstown, including the intersection of Route 2 and Mail Road and washing away a portion of Route 102 in Exeter. A section of the Blue Pond Dam in Hopkinton washed away, flooding the area and washing out a portion of Route 3. Water flowed so
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.