Point State Park lies submerged under the rains of Hurricane Agnes in June of 1972. After four days of heavy rain the three rivers crested at 35.82 feet, more than 10 feet above flood level. It was the highest the rivers had risen since 1942. Damage was estimated at $45,000,000 and would have been much higher had it not been for the effective system of dams and reservoirs erected after the Great Flood of 1936. Seasonal flooding is a fact of life on the riverfront, but it is generally limited to the wharf areas and the tip of Point State Park near the fountain. The next time Pittsburgh would see flooding of this magnitude was during the winter of 1996, when the city would be inundated with a flood of ice and water reaching 34.6 feet.