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(L-R) are Chez Pace Jr., Concezio Pace Sr., Steve Reilly and Alex Pace, all of Paramount Construction.
One Year After Last Summer’s Catastrophic Flooding in Conn., Repairs Still Ongoing On Loughlin Road in Oxford, Conn., less than a halfmile uphill from state Highway 34 and the adjacent Housatonic River, Eightmile Brook is flowing at a languid 250 cu. ft. per second or so. But that is just a trickle compared to the raging, lifethreatening flood that it became on the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2024. Casey Lucarelli was staying at her father’s house on that rainy afternoon when in only 15 minutes, the usual tranquil stream became a debris-strewn rising river that practically surrounded the 1805 farmhouse and its even-older shed.
As Lucarelli was evacuating, Loughlin Road partially caved in behind her car from the force of the swollen creek that starts at Lake Quassapaug in Middlebury, slows at Papermill Pond in Southford Falls State Park south of Conn. 67, then tumbles sharply downhill before emptying into the Housatonic River. Today, the piles of trees and boulders that cascaded onto the Lucarelli property are gone, but she and her father Gary are still picking up debris. see FLOOD page 12