Angela Sadlowski

Paideia Research
Period 4
12/22/16
Works Cited

Federick, Karen. Byram River Flood. Connecticut History.org, CThumanities Program, 15

Oct. 2014, connecticuthistory.org/byram-river-flood-today-in-history/. Accessed 18 Nov.

2016. This source has useful information on how the Flood of 1955 cuased suffering and

devastation. It explains in detail how the flood caused property damage, death and

infastructure damage.

Greyson, Martin. Army Arrival Set for River Clean up. The Hartford Courant [Hartford], 31

Aug. 1955, Updates sec., pp. 45-47. This source has very useful information on how the

army helped victims of the flood and how people got together to clean up after the flood.

It also explains how the Flood of 1955 cuased an outpouring of concern from the local

community. Many businesses and charities helped Connecticut recover.

Ryan Hanrahan.com, Ryan Hanrahan, 21 June 2013,

Hanrahan, Ryan. Flood of August 1955.

www.ryanhanrahan.com/flood-of-august-1955/. Accessed 3 Dec. 2016. This site has very

useful information on the flood control that was created and enforced as a result of the

1955 Flood. Ryan Hanrahan is a meteorologist at NBCCT. He also received his

Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from Penn State and attended graduate school

at the State University of New York at Albany for atmospheric science

Henderson, Staurt. $5-6 Millions Damage 7 Persons Missing. Hartford Times [Hartford], This

Week sec., pp. 7-10. This source has very useful information of the suffering and
 devastation caused by the flood. More specifically, how property damage and loss of

jobs affected people. It also explains how people heroically responded to the flood.

Martinelli, Joshua J. The Flood of 1955 in the Farmington Valley Region. New Britain, April,

2003. This book has very useful information on how the flood was caused by two

back-to-back hurricanes and how the rain brought by these hurricanes caused dams to

break and rivers to overflow. Martinelli also writes about the changes caused because of

the flood and the dams engineered by the US Corps of Engineers to prevent future floods.

The Flood of 1955. Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut History, 11

Padelford, Jill.

Apr. 2011, connecticuthistory.org/the-flood-that-we-forget-october-15-and-16-1955/.

Accessed 11 Nov. 2016. This article is useful because it explains the cause of the

devastating flood in CT of 1955. It also explains how people responded almost

immediately to the flood. Padelford is a life long member of the Historical Society, a

well known society in CT and a frequent guest on many local TV channels and radio

shows.

Flood Risk Management Project. US Army Corps of Engineers, 10 June

Sucker Brook Dam

2015,

www.nae.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Flood-Risk-Management/Connecticut/S

ucker-Brook/. Accessed 2 Dec. 2016. This website has very useful information on how

SuckerBrook Dam in Winsted, CT prevents floods. This website is truthful because the

US Army Corps of Engineers were sent by the government, to help rebuild CT and

prevent floods like the flood in 1955. Also, The New England District of the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers is responsible for managing the Corps Civil Works responsibilities in
a 66,000-square-mile region encompassing the six New England states east of the Lake

Champlain drainage basin.