The motivation behind the selection of this particular watershed arose from the fact that it experiences floods of unit specific discharge greater than 1m3/s/Km2 virtually once a month every year (Smith et. al., 2005). This basin study could provide an insight into the extremes resulted from intense storm event on small urban watersheds in US and around the world. Moores Run watershed is characterized by an urbanized settlement dominated by dense residential land use. Owing to its development more than 100 years ago, its surface drainage system consists of a single surface drainage channel at its downstream basin (Smith et. al., 2005). Whole watershed comprises of about 98% of medium residential settlement and 2% of forest and woody wetlands. Moores Run is accompanied by two USGS stream flow gaging stations; USGS 01585230 at Radecke Avenue and USGS 01585225 at a tributary of Moores Run, near Todd Avenue (Figure 1). Major source of Moores Run flow is the surface run-off during storms. Moores Run watershed, therefore, turns virtually dry except in the wet
The motivation behind the selection of this particular watershed arose from the fact that it experiences floods of unit specific discharge greater than 1m3/s/Km2 virtually once a month every year (Smith et. al., 2005). This basin study could provide an insight into the extremes resulted from intense storm event on small urban watersheds in US and around the world. Moores Run watershed is characterized by an urbanized settlement dominated by dense residential land use. Owing to its development more than 100 years ago, its surface drainage system consists of a single surface drainage channel at its downstream basin (Smith et. al., 2005). Whole watershed comprises of about 98% of medium residential settlement and 2% of forest and woody wetlands. Moores Run is accompanied by two USGS stream flow gaging stations; USGS 01585230 at Radecke Avenue and USGS 01585225 at a tributary of Moores Run, near Todd Avenue (Figure 1). Major source of Moores Run flow is the surface run-off during storms. Moores Run watershed, therefore, turns virtually dry except in the wet