Folder 7: 1969 Flood, 1967 - 1969

- 1967 June Newsletter Monroe County Soil & Water Conservation District; Land and Water - Watershed Progress in Pennsylvania [booklet] - 1967 December 1 United States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service Watersheds Memorandum SCS-66 (Rev. 4) RE: WS-PL-566 - Benefits from Watershed Projects - 1969 July 29 [letterhead] Tocks Island Regional Advisory Council - Frank W. Dressler To Mr. Reginald Nauman RE: “Tocks Island dam would not have helped our Situation” - 1969 July 30 Monroe residents plow out as flood waters by Bert Walter Pocono Record - 1969 July 30, 31 Report on July Flood Damages Observed in Tour of Monroe County Creeks and Opinions of Officials and Residents by N. Shukaitis [3 copies] - 1969 July 31 to Honorable Maurice K. Goddard RE: Penn Hills Lodge resort on Brodheads Creek above Village of Analomink - 1969 August 2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor’s Office Harrisburg News Information RE: seminar to prevent future environmental destructions - 1969 August 2 Monroe Flood Control Is Characterized by Red Tape, Futility - And Little Action by Bruce P. Frassinelli Express - 1969 August 4 Answers to Questions Asked in Public Meeting of Commissioners in Court Room #1 Monday [3 copies] - 1969 August 4 RESOLUTION - heavy rains of July 27, 28, 29 caused dangerous Flooding [3 copies] - 1969 August 4 8 Residents of Paupaunoming Grove to Monroe County Commissioners RE: complaint about debris washing down from the Thru-way and Township roads at Saylorsburg - 1969 August 5 to Honorable Richard S. Schweiker RE: tremendous tributary flooding Due to heavy rains; [newspaper item] Schweiker Sees Threat To Small Watershed Sites - 1969 August 5 [letterhead] Commissioners’ Office Stroudsburg to Dr. Richard Gerstel State Director of Civil Defense RE: Total estimate of damage recent flash floods - 1969 August 5 [photocopy letterhead] Canadensis Hotel estimated damages due to Flood Disaster July 28, 29, 1969 #21,075.00 - 1969 August 6 Monroe flood loss passes $2 million The Pocono Record - 1969 August 6 from William F. Halterman - Price Township Board of Supervisors to Monroe County Commissioners RE: estimated cost of repairing flood damage in Price Township - 1969 August 7 from Lloyd R. LaBar, Builder to Monroe County Commissioners RE: Estimate of costs for repairs to Barrett Township due to flooding - 1969 August 7 from Mr. & Mrs. George Zalepa to Monroe County Commissioners - Nancy Shukaitis RE: losses incurred during flooding on July 28, 1969 near the Landmark called the old schoolhouse at Route 191 - 1969 August 7 from Mrs. Charles B. Hartman - Old Glenwood Hall to Monroe County Commissioners RE: Pocono Creek at Tannersville request to remove large Trees blocking the stream quickly before another flood - 1969 August 7 [letterhead] Borough of East Stroudsburg to Honorable Hugh Scott RE: Brodheads Creek again reached flood stage, approximately 500’ of flood Control dike constructed after 1955 flood washed away, Council approved you Be informed of situation - 1969 August 8 Fred B. Rooney to Monroe County RE: sent a telegram to Governor Shafer and Corps of Engineers urging they request the President to designate County disaster area but was told that the request over the flood situation was In the hands of the President - 1969 August 9 Monroe Official Waits In Vain For Disaster Assistance Aide The Express - 1969 August 12 from Stanley Gordon, Edwin Buck, Mrs. Nancy Shukaitis to Honorable Robert G. Bartlett - Secretary of Highways, Pennsylvania RE: seminar to Discuss effective cooperative planning of future roads… - 1969 August 13 Flood Aid Is Available In Monroe, Official Says The Express - 1969 August 15 [letterhead] Commissioners’ Office to Mr. R. M. Davis, State Rep. RE: Monroe County Watershed Protection and Flood Control Projects (P.L. 566) - 1969 August 18 [letterhead] Commissioners’ Office Announcement Watershed Tour Set For Sept. 3 - 1969 August 18 Monroe County Commissioners - Nancy Shukaitis to President Richard M. Nixon RE: Declaration of Disaster Area for Monroe, Carbon and Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania [ 2 copies] - 1969 August 18 [telegram] from Nancy Shukaitis to Senator Hugh Scott RE: “East Stroudsburg, Council request, Tamiment only fifteen miles north of East Stroudsburg, disaster declaration of president not yet made. Rooney was here. Your appearance urgent. People alarmed at silence from Washington.” - 1969 August 19 [telegram] from Hugh Scott to Hon. Nancy Shukaitis RE: “President has Declared Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill counties major disaster area with Initial allocation of $400,000 for emergency frepiar [?repair] and temporary Displacement of public facilities damaged in recent flood” - 1969 August 22 [typed and handwritten list] The Following will attend the meeting with OEP in Lehighton: Stroud Township, Paradise Township, Price Township, Eldred Township, Ross Township, East Stroudsburg, Hamilton, Barrett, Pocono, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania - 1969 August 22 [letterhead] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways - Robert G. Bartlett to Mrs. Nancy Shukaitis RE: request investigation to be made by engineers of local District 5-0 office as to the points in her August 12, 1969 letter [3 copies] - 1969 August 25 [letterhead] Executive Office of the President - Office of Emergency Preparedness - Robert Y. Phillips to Miss Nancy B. Shukaitis RE: her letter of August 18, President declared on August 19 major disaster, Federal assistance Is available for relief and recovery work, Monroe County designated eligible for This assistance - 1969 August 27 [letterhead] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Dept. of Forests and Waters - C.H. McConnell to Mr. John R. O’Neil RE: reply to O’Neil letter of August 15, 1969 for emergency stream clearance work - 1969 August 29 [letterhead] U.S. Dept. of Agriculture - R. M. Davis to Mr. Elwood Hintze RE: letter of August 15 in proceeding with Brodhead Creek Watershed Project - 1969 August 29 [letterhead] Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Richard Gerstell to Mrs. Nancy Shukaitis RE: replacement of two privately owned bridges destroyed by Recent flood - Federal and State regulations render it legally impossible to Extend assistance in repair or restoration of private property damaged or Destroyed by floods - 1969 September 5 [handwritten notes] Bridge St. - Dogwood Gardens - 1969 September Monroe Commission Told Of Areas Ineligible For Aid The Express - 1969 September Report Due Friday Monroe County Engineer To Process Flood Claims - 1969 STATE DISASTER RELIEF OFFICE (Carbon, Monroe and Schuylkill Counties) Eastern Area Headquarters…Lehighton, Pennsylvania - 1969 Monroe residents pl? Out as flood waters… by Bert Walter, Emergency work approved Dike repair begins today by Bob Groff Pocono Record - ???? Subdivision Notice of Interest in Applying for Federal Disaster Relief Assistance Form SCCD-DR-1