Abstract

Lake Erie Pennsylvania Watershed Mapping
Track: Water Resources
Authors: Daniel Ngoroi, Sean Rafferty

The Pennsylvania Lake Erie watershed is located within the largest surface fresh water system in the world, the North American Great Lakes. This presentation highlights how GIS mapping and analysis was used to delineate watershed boundaries, map hydrographical features, extract the shoreline and analyze the rate of recession of the bluff crest line over a three year period. An analysis of how the expansion of impervious surfaces within the watershed was impacting the watershed was carried out.