Flooding (Pittsburgh, Carnegie, Millvale: how much, residential, areas)

[Caladium]

I was just wondering which areas (if any) have problems with flooding?

[bradjl2009]

If you're talking about right now with all the rain, no where really major. It's been rainy but it's mostly been a light rain and not enough to cause anything more than flooding on the Mon Warf tomorrow.

[gg]

It has to be a huge mass flood for areas like Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg and Carnegie to get flooded. It is very rare, but has happened. The towns I posted only get flooded in parts of them that are low lying. Last time it was hurricane Katrina plus we had high waters even before that come up this way.

[BrianTH]

There are flood zone maps available. These days, they do a pretty good job with flood control on the big rivers. So it is actually the low-lying places along the tributaries that sometimes have issues.

[raubre]

Hays (the city neighborhopod off Streets Run Road, near Sandcastle) gets hit as well.

[I_Like_Spam]

River flooding isn't too common in the residential areas- the parkway and 10th St. Bypass are usually the only ones affected. The rivers are canalized which allows some regulation of how much water is in Pittsburgh

Creek flooding is a different story, a lot of rain particularly in a short period of time can inundate low lying areas near Etna, Millvale, Carnegie and elsewhere.