Renovation Planned for Link to Past ; Hillery Street Bridge has Stood for Century

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In October 1903, more than 10 inches of rain deluged the East Coast, causing the "flood of the century" in the Passaic River Basin amid the havoc up and down the East Coast. It nearly rained out the first World Series, between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Ramapo and Saddle rivers flooded, and nine wooden bridges collapsed into the swollen Delaware while rail traffic between New York and Philadelphia ground to a halt.

But where the Passaic passes through Totowa and West Paterson, a five-year-old truss bridge on Hillery Street weathered the flood. And during eight more floods, capped by Tropical Storm Floyd in 1999, that rendered the river basin a federal disaster area, the bridge stood.

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Renovation Planned for Link to Past ; Hillery Street Bridge has Stood for Century

The sturdy little span has changed little, but the towns around it have. It is too narrow for today's trucks, and not strong eno...

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