The Susquehanna River is the Mississippi of the Northeast.Stretching nearly 450 miles, it’s the region’s longest waterway and among its most significant historically. Much of the Susquehanna’s recent history is tumultuous. In 1972, the tail end of Hurricane Agnes dumped nearly 2 feet of rainwater on the New York-Pennsylvania border area, swelling the river and its tributaries to flood levels. More recently, in June 2006, a storm system whipped up by a stalled jet stream flooded the Mid-Atlantic region once again, most destructively in the Susquehanna River basin near Binghamton, N.Y.Enter Catherine Aingworth, superintendent of the Binghamton-Johnson City Wastewater Treatment
