There are many problems that can come along with flooding and the lack of regulations from a certain place to put laws that prevent the construction of business and houses near water basins. Any law can be placed but if there is no regulation and if there are open interpretations that allow people to bend the laws and still be able to do construction near a basin where floods can potentially happen causing infrastructure problems. The Mohawk watershed is located in the border of New York State. Several tests were conducted in order to measure flooding and how often does it happen in the Mohawk Watershed. Flooding may be caused by more water entering the watershed. In order to find the recurrence interval of the Mohawk river and how it has changed
