Stephen Williams reports in the Daily Gazette that heavy rains this week may have reversed drought conditions, but they have also released many "combined sewer overflows" into the Hudson River. After a dry spring and early summer, the National Weather Service reported three inches of rain fell July 23 just outside of Albany, with reports of up to six inches in the northern Catskill mountains. A flash flood watch continues for Western Albany County, Western Greene County, and Western Ulster County through July 25. The U.S. Drought Monitor was listing most of upstate New York as "abnormally dry," before this week, but all the moisture from the Atlantic Ocean falling in the area should change that. "If we can get a few inches of rain this week and put some water back in the ground, we may get out of this deficit," said Steve DiRienzo, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albany. Heavy rains always lead to "combined sewage overflows" into the Hudson River, and this week has been no exception. There was a 10,000-gallon discharge into the Hudson River in Glens Falls, and the cities of Troy and Rensselaer were also reporting they anticipated sewage flowing into the Hudson. Last week 118,200 gallons of untreated waste spilled into the Hudson River, according to the Poughkeepsie Water Pollution Control Plant. Read the full story in the Daily Gazette.