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Flooding affected Ithaca again in 1956. In the decade that followed, flood prevention infrastructure plans would be implemented to decrease the risk of this happening.
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Flood Meadow St at Old Elmira Rd. Courtesy of the History Center in Tompkins County.
As evidenced by the man wading in the foreground, the floodwaters were over a foot high in Ithaca.
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Elmira Road looking east, April 1956. Courtesy of the History Center in Tompkins County.
The businesses on lowlands were heavily damaged, while the universities on the hills were largely unaffected.