A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.

In Point Pleasant, W.Va., water rose near the tops of lampposts at a riverfront park outside the city’s floodwall. And parts of downtown Port Deposit, Md., were off limits after the Susquehanna River spilled into city streets.

The remnants of Hurricane Ivan brought ruinous flooding to a large swath of the East after causing misery across the South. On Monday, officials worked to clear streets of water and debris and return people to their homes.

“Our guys are putting snowplows on as we speak and getting ready to try to move the muck as soon as the water goes out,” said Mayor Michael Mullen, of Marietta, Ohio, a town at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers that saw its worst flooding in 40 years.

Water reached the top of the goal posts at the Marietta College football field, which sits near a creek, and many homes and businesses had water up to 3 feet deep. Throughout eastern Ohio, about 1,700 people had been forced out of their homes over the weekend.

No deaths or injuries were reported in Marietta but about 400 homes and 400 businesses were damaged. Mullen predicted downtown businesses would be covered in up to 6 inches of Ohio River mud once the waters recede.

The scene was similar in Port Deposit, a low-lying town in northeastern Maryland on the Susquehanna River. The river rushed at 567,000 cubic feet per second Monday — more than five times its normal maximum level for this time of year.

The center of town remained closed to incoming traffic and roads at the north end of town were impassable, but floodwaters were expected to begin receding Monday evening.

“We’ve got lots of mud. We’ve got lots of debris,” Deputy Mayor Kerry Abrams said from an emergency command center at Town Hall.

In West Virginia, more than 300 homes and businesses were destroyed and about 470 homes were severely damaged, the state Office of Emergency Services said. Troopers were searching for a man in the state’s northern panhandle whose empty truck was found in a creek Saturday night.

Ivan and its remnants were blamed for at least 52 deaths in the United States and 70 in the Caribbean. Much of the destruction was caused by flooding in the storm’s wake.

Robert McClellan, left, and Joshua Rebman navigate a canoe along flooded Main Street as residents look on in Port Deposit, Md. Much of the town's downtown was under water Monday.