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	Stonycreek - Conemaugh River Improvement Project (SCRIP)
		The Conemaugh River from the confluence of the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh in downtown Johnstown, PA, through Conemaugh Gap about eight miles west of Johnstown.
		Maps of the Scrip watershed rivers and tributaries.
		But these rivers are the route of the Mainline and Path of the Flood Trails, which are part of the Pennsylvania's Millennium Legacy Trail: The Pittsburgh-Harrisburg Mainline Canal Greenway.
	www.scrip.pa-conservation.org (420 words)

	Untitled Document
		The river channel tends to be steep and V-shaped, and the bed is rough and irregular.
		The gradient of the river in the plains tends to decrease rapidly, and the river channel broadens and deepens.
		The slope, or gradient, of the river is highest near the headwaters and lowest at the mouth of the river, where it is terminated in a larger body of water, such as a river or ocean.
	www.indiana.edu /~g103/G103/week6/wk6.html (2161 words)

	Little Conemaugh River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main branch rises in eastern Cambria County, along the western slope of the Appalachian ridge separating the watersheds of the Ohio and Susquehanna rivers.
		From 1834 to 1854 the river was paralleled by the Allegheny Portage Railroad, connecting the two branches of Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, with the western terminus of the portage railroad at Johnstown.
		The river flows through scenic mountainous areas but is considered severely degraded by abandoned mine drainages from the long exploitation of the region's coal resources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Conemaugh_River (208 words)

	Quik Tour of the City of Johnstown PA USA
		The Little Conemaugh River Valley is in the upper center of the picture at the top of the page and is the source of the great flood of 1889.
		The Conemaugh River Gap is over 1600 feet deep when measured from the top of Rager Mountain (on the North, right in the picture) and the level of the river at its outfall from the gap in Robinson, in Indiana County.
		This is a view of the Conemaugh River in the Coopersdale section of the City of Johnstown immediately before it enters the Conemaugh Gap.
	webpages.charter.net /gdsbmmllp/city/city.htm (1337 words)

	The spirit of Johnstown - The Boston Globe
		Pittsburgh prospered as a steel-mill town on the banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, the gateway to all points west.
		From the lake, the Little Conemaugh River twists between the steep slopes and at one point forms a giant oxbow curve.
		Much of the town is reduced to a 45-acre mass of debris collected at the foot of a stone bridge over the river.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/06/23/the_spirit_of_johnstown (1068 words)

	Rivers and Watersheds, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
		The mission of the LWA is to protect, conserve and restore the natural resources of the Loyalhanna Creek, which originates in the limestone aquifers of Laurel Mountain and finds its way to a confluence with the Conemaugh River in Saltsburg, on the border of Westmoreland and Indiana Counties (east of Pittsburgh).
		As the Pennsylvania Commonwealth's only statewide river conservation and watershed networking organization, POWR works with a diversity of groups, individuals, agencies, and educational institutions to maintain and enhance Pennsylvania's 83,000 miles of streams and rivers and their associated watershed resources.
		WVRC is the second largest river conservation group in the country and the largest east of the Mississippi, with over 1,500 members and 46 affiliate organizations.
	www.clpgh.org /subject/environment/rivers.html (2521 words)

	Little Conemaugh River trout come up big - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The section of the river south of Lloydell Reservoir, in southeastern Cambria County, is heavily impacted by acid mine drainage, a condition that "knocks it for a loop," according to Gary Smith, a fisheries technician with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's southwest region office in Somerset.
		North of the reservoir, the river is less acidic, but not by a lot.
		Wild trout waters are ranked according to the total biomass, or weight, of fish in a measured section of stream.
	livesite.pittsburghlive.com.cob-web.org:8888 /x/tribune-review/sports/outdoors/s_86676.html (396 words)

	Manufacturers Water Company History 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Due to the pollution of the Stonycreek River the Border Intake became undesirable for domestic service to the city of Johnstown but could be used for industrial purposes.
		During 1900 the Border Intake on the Stonycreek River and the 36-inch pipe line leading to the city was leased by the Manufacturers Water Company from the Johnstown Water Company.
		Due to mine drainage the intake on the Little Conemaugh River was moved upstream to a point 2,900 feet below the mouth of the South Fork branch.
	webpages.charter.net /gjwa/histc02.htm (422 words)

	Fortnightly Club of Redlands
		The Conemaugh River which flows through the Conemaugh Gap in Laurel Mountain and eventually to the Allegheny River above Pittsburgh is fed by the Little Conemaugh and by Stony Creek which meet in Johnstown.
		At one point, where the valley narrowed, the water reached a height of 89 feet; the consensus among witnesses to its awesome rush was that the wave was generally 30 to 40 feet high.
		The depth of the Conemaugh River at the tip of the triangle rose from a foot to 35 feet in ten hours.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /papers/templeton02.htm (3393 words)

	Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority - AMD Projects
		The Authority acts as the implementation arm for SCRIP, Stonycreek, Conemaugh Rivers Improvement Project, and other watershed groups in Cambria County including the headwaters of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and Blacklick Creek (Conemaugh River Tributary).
		The Authority is currently active in 3 projects on the Little Conemaugh River, 1 project on a tributary to the Conemaugh River and 1 on the Blacklick Creek.
		Most projects are currently located on the Little Conemaugh River watershed (40% of Cambria County) because a comprehensive study of discharges and pollution loads conducted by the county from 1992 thropugh 1995 allows us to prioritize work there and design remediation systems.
	ctcnet.net /cccra/amd.htm (486 words)

	SEMP - Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1889 Dam Failure Disaster: Worst in American History
		At Johnstown, the Little Conemaugh River and the Stony Creek converge to form the Conemaugh River, which cuts through bedrock on its way to the great Allegheny River to the west.
		Except in the springtime, when Little Conemaugh and the Stony Creek become engorged from mountain runoffs, the two rivers are not daunting at all--only about 200 feet wide and strewn with rocks that one could hopscotch from one side to the other.
		The Little Conemaugh, which is the swifter of the two rivers, begins in Lilly, a coal town on the western slope of the “Allegheny Front Section” (see map), about 18 miles to the east of Johnstown.
	www.semp.us /biots/biot_359.html (3398 words)

	Pennsylvania Highways: Johnstown Flood
		A second Lake Conemaugh, deeper than the original, was created until the bulk of the wave crashed through six to seven minutes later and destroyed the viaduct and temporary dam with more violence than how the original dam disintegrated.
		They designed the modified river channels to carry peak flows similar to those in the Saint Patrick's Day Flood, which are predicted to have a one in 60 chance of happening in any given year.
		The project consisted of deepening and widening the channels of the Conemaugh, Little Conemaugh, and Stoneycreek Rivers, construction of concrete slopes, and floodwalls were the channels could not be widened.
	www.pahighways.com /features/johnstownflood.html (5039 words)

	May 31, 1889 Johnstown Flood by The New York Times
		The cause of the calamity, it is admitted by the President of the South Fork Fishing Club, the proprietor of the artificial Conemaugh Lake, was the weakness of the dam alone.
		Johnstown, June 6 - The certainty of the towns along the Conemaugh and Allegheny Valleys being subjected to ravages of an epidemic of typhus, or at least typhoid, fever this summer has been doubly assured by the course pursued by the persons who are now engaged in clearing the debris in the river at Johnstown.
		The Conemaugh is a tributary of the Allegheny River, which in turn supplies most of the water used in Pittsburg and Allegheny.
	www.johnstownpa.com /History/hist30.html (1484 words)

	Railfan's Guide - Portage, PA
		It is situated on the mouth of Trout Run near the Little Conemaugh River.
		The natural waterway from the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad existed across the southeastern counties of Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill River, the Susquehanna River, and the Juniata River to Hollidaysburg.
		From the Allegheny River the boats could progress to the Pittsburgh area and the Ohio River.
	www.trainweb.org /horseshoecurve-nrhs/portage.htm (624 words)

	St. Michael Project - CCCRA
		One of the challenges of Acid Mine Drainage remediation in the Upper Conemaugh Basin is to continue to form new partnerships and secure new resources for the cleanup of over 400 discharges on the Stony Creek and Little Conemaugh Rivers.
		The St. Michael mine shaft is the single worst source of pollution in the Little Conemaugh River Basin and responsible for almost 30% of the pollutant load in the watershed.
		The discharge overwhelms and renders the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River toxic to all forms of aquatic life.
	ctcnet.net /cccra/stmike.htm (612 words)

	Pennsylvania Kayak & Whitewater, Tips, Resources and River Information
		Rivers do not always fit easily into one category and there may be regional interpretations.
		Slippery Rock Creek is a Class II to IV river, depending on water level.
		The idea is to paddle the boat into a spot where the river pushes the bow down, thus lifting the stern into the air.
	www.bigdamfish.net /kayak.html (4407 words)

	Johnstown Flood Pennsylvania Johnstown Flood Travel Attraction Johnstown Flood PA
		The high, steep hills of the narrow Conemaugh Valley and the Allegheny Mountains range to the east kept development close to the riverfront areas, and subject the valley to large amounts of rain and snowfall.
		The area surrounding the town of Johnstown was prone to flooding due to its position at the confluence of Stony Creek and Little Conemaugh River, forming the Conemaugh River, and to the artificial straightening of these rivers for the purposes of development.
		The inhabitants of the town of Johnstown were caught by surprise as the wall of water bore down on the village, traveling at 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) and reaching a height of 60 feet (18 m) in places.
	www.pavacationrental.com /Pennsylvania-Sight-Seeing-Johnstown-Flood.htm (1620 words)

	Quick Tour of the City of Johnstown, PA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1889, a wall of water, reported to be 60 feet high, exited from the Little Conemaugh River Valley and crashed into the hillside below the Inclined Plane.
		With the exception of a few structures, the center of the City of Johnstown was obliterated.
		This is due to its many repairs since the Pennsylvania Railroad constructed it in the 1800’s.)In the 1889 flood, the wave of floodwaters pushed timber and debris from smashed buildings into the bridge creating a dam complete with whirlpool.
	www.johnstown-redevelopment.org /city.htm (1360 words)

	Fishing the Upper Conemaugh River Basin
		Description - The headwaters of the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River were approved in 1995 as an addition to the Wilderness Trout Program of the Fish and Boat Commission.
		Laurel Run (Sidman) is located along Roberts Road and Route 160, flowing past Sidman and into the South Fork of the Little Conemaugh River just east of the access road to the Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
		It flows 10.6 miles to the Johnstown neighborhood of Minersville, where it enters the mainstem of the Conemaugh River.
	www.bigdamfish.net /fisheriesc.html (1731 words)

	GenBook100
		(tributary of Little Conemaugh River) Portage Township, Cambria County; Summerhill Township, Cambria County
		(tributary of Little Conemaugh River) Croyle Township, Cambria County; Summerhill Township, Cambria County
		(tributary of Stony Creek) Conemaugh Township, Somerset County; Jenner Township, Somerset County; Lincoln Township, Somerset County; Quemahoning Township, Somerset County; Somerset Township, Somerset County
	www.motherbedford.com /GenBook100.htm (7004 words)

	Jaybird7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As originally conceived in mid-1887, the rail mill was to occupy almost sixty acres along the eastern bank of a sweeping bend in the Stony Creek River.
		Some two and a half miles downstream, at its confluence with the Little Conemaugh River, was the sprawling Cambria Iron Company, its blast furnaces and steel rail mill.
		Near the confluence itself were situated the small downtown boroughs of Johnstown and Conemaugh, the latter built along the site of the old canal basin from the days of the Pennsylvania Canal system, where canal boats were off-loaded from the Allegheny Portage Railroad after crossing the mountains.
	www.pitt.edu /~zander/Jaybird7.htm (2014 words)

	Explore the Path of Progress
		Fourteen miles up the Little Conemaugh River was a lake created when the South Fork Dam was constructed to supply water to the Main Line Canal.
		The poorly maintained dam was breached and the entire lake began to cascade down the valley of the Little Conemaugh toward Johnstown.
		Completed in 1891, the inclined plane rises from the river valley at a 71 percent grade making it the steepest vehicular railroad in the world and the last inclined plane that can still accommodate vehicles.
	www.sphpc.org /sphpc1/explore_pop.htm (3903 words)

	Park Science--Volume 21(1)--Fall/Winter 2001--Northeast parks' regional strategy to control knotweed supported by U.S. ...
		To encourage this local and regional awareness, the parks have participated in the development of the Kiski-Conemaugh Rivers Conservation Plan, a comprehensive regional plan that addresses the basin's land, water, biological, and cultural resources.
		This scene features knotweed growing along the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, approximately one-half mile upstream from the Johnstown Flood National Memorial boundary.
		The importance of convincing owners of neighboring lands, rights-of-way, and waterways to implement effective knotweed eradication methods is paramount to the success of the comprehensive regional plan to protect the resources of the watershed.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /parksci/vol21/vol21(1)/10-3reeder.JOFL.html (336 words)

	Men rescued from river wall - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		A pair of anglers found themselves caught on the opening day of trout season along the Little Conemaugh River.
		The two men traversed a steep wall along the river to avoid high waters and also to find their own secluded fishing spot.
		When it began to rain, the men turned back, but the narrow path along the river wall had become slick and dangerous, firefighters said.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_66490.html (135 words)

	025 Pa. Code § 93.9t. Drainage List T.
		Basins, Quemahoning Creek to Confluence with Little Conemaugh River
		Main Stem, Confluence of Little Conemaugh River and Stoney Creek to Confluence with Loyalhanna Creek
		Basins, Confluence of Little Conemaugh River and Stoney Creek to Confluence with Loyalhanna Creek
	www.pacode.com /secure/data/025/chapter93/s93.9t.html (470 words)

	TrainWeb for train travel, model railroading, railfans and the railroad industry.
		This river is famous as "the river that flows backwards" because of its westward course away from Lake Michigan.
		Nestled in the fertile farm land of the headwaters of the Wabash River, Nappanee is a thriving small city with a large population of Amish, Mennonite and German Baptist.
		The University of Pittsburgh's football team was the first to put numbers on their jerseys, the Steelers were the first team to win four Super Bowl Trophies, and so on.
	www.trainweb.com /webwork/webworkb/threerivers.html (1512 words)

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