Lower and Middle Wabash Watershed Modeling

Engineering Models Notification

 

Lower and Middle Wabash Watershed Discovery

Three Discovery Meeting were hosted by the University of Illinois Extension at Paris, Robinson, and Mt. Carmel, Illinois, in July 2011. Three Discovery Meetings were also held in Indiana.

As part of FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) program, the ISWS will be working with communities across the Wabash River watersheds to develop a more accurate understanding of their flood risk.

Discovery maps and reports have been prepared and may be downloaded along with the Discovery database.

 

Action Discovery Materials

Discovery Reports, Maps, & Database

About the Wabash

The Wabash River which got its name from the Miami Indian word "wah-bah-shik-ki" meaning "pure white" originates near Fort Recovery, Ohio. It flows southwest for 500 miles through Indiana and forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois until it meets the Ohio River above Old Shawneetown, Illinois. It has a total drainage of 33,000 square miles of which about two-thirds is agricultural.

Lower Wabash Watershed Discovery Map

Approximately one-fourth of its drainage comes from Illinois. The Wabash is one of the largest free flowing rivers east of the Mississippi River. It flows unimpeded for over 400 miles from the Huntington Dam in Indiana to its confluence with the Ohio. The Wabash does not have commercial navigation.