The January melt has brought the waters of the Connecticut River to 4 feet over the Holyoke Dam.
HOLYOKE — The January melt has brought the waters of the Connecticut River to 4 feet over the Holyoke Dam.
Holyoke Gas & Electric spokesman Paul Ducheney said the amount of water flowing over the 973-foot dam amounts to more than 320,000 gallons per second.
In the 116 seconds of this video, that is enough water to fill 371 Olympic 100,000 gallon swimming pools and weighs almost as much as the Queen Mary 2 at 135,360 tons.