(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release in Pittsburgh yesterday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, they and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission will kick off their Chartiers Creek Feasibility Study on March 9th, 2026 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. This will take place at the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission Office in Pittsburgh and a cost-share agreement with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission to conduct a flood risk-management feasibility study of the Chartiers Creek watershed in Allegheny and Washington counties will be signed by the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, Col. Nicholas Melin there. This study will examine the approximately 277 square-mile area to evaluate possible flood-control management solutions and alternatives to reduce the risk for the over 250,000 residents living within the watershed. In recent decades, the watershed of the Chartiers Creek has experienced frequent, systemic flooding and increasing flood- and life-safety risks to communities.