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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		Flooding of The St. John River Reaches Historic Levels
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:01:08
	Publish Date:		2018-05-11 16:42:32
	Description:		Flooding in Northern Maine has been worse than usual this spring, thanks to late snows, a fast melt, and ice-choked rivers. And just over the national border, the flooding along the St. John River is being described as historic. It has been days since 49-year-old Markus Harvey has been able to drive a car. "I've been driving the last two weeks by tractor on the road between my place and up river,” he says. “From my place downriver, there is no vehicles.” Harvey says that he is one of about 20 residents who decided to hunker down in the water-logged farming community of Maugerville. "What we have here is local farmers would come up in boats, park on my front lawn and we would go from there down the road checking on neighbors and feeding the livestock and whatnot,” says Harvey. Harvey says he built his home with flooding in mind, and was careful to store nothing but a hockey net in the cellar. Even so, his basement has flooded with raw sewage from a backed up septic system, something he
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