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"CITY AT RISK?”

  • Jun 9, 2022
  • 1 min read

Empirical Watershed Hydrology in the Little Conemaugh Basin and implications for Flood-Prone Johnstown, PA

Christopher L. Coughenour*, Neil M. Coleman, and Anthony L. Taylor

Department of Energy & Earth Resources

University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

*Corresponding author: coughenour@pitt.edu


Speaker:  Christopher L. Coughenour, PhD

Background

A History of Flooding

Physical Geography of the Watershed

Past Remediation Efforts


New Research

Unit Hydrograph Production

Direct Runoff Estimation

Quantifying Flood Recurrence

     (initial steps)

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