PITTSBURGH — The Mon Wharf, the 10th Street Bypass, the I-376 “Bathtub” and the Point. We all know the usual suspects during a flooding event in Pittsburgh, and what it means for your day-to-day routine with the closure of parking areas and your normal commute routes.
In an effort to give earlier warning to the impacts of flooding, the National Weather Service has lowered the height of flood stage for the Ohio River in the city of Pittsburgh.
“We coordinated with our partners in the city of Pittsburgh, and with the amount of traffic that the 10th Street Bypass gets on average each day, it’s close to 10 to 15 thousand a day, the impacts are significant enough that we could lower the flood stage,” explains Alicia Miller, a hydrologist with the Pittsburgh National Weather Service…