Resources
Investigative Resources
USGS - rain drop flow
Ever wonder the path of a rain drop?
StreamStats
1. Click the StreamStats link
2. Click on "Exploration Tools"
3. Click "Show your location"
4. Click "Flow (Raindrop) Path"
5. Click "Select a point on map" from the pop-up window
6. Click on the map
7. Click "Go" on pop-up window
USGS
What is feeding this waterway?USGS has many extremely powerful data tools. StreamStats is a great place to start.
StreamStats: Discover all the upstream locations that flow to a specific location
1. Click the StreamStats link
2. Type "FLOYDS FORK" in the search
3. Select the first one "FLOYDS FORK Division"
4. Select Kentucky
5. On the right, under "Layers" click "KY Map Layers"
6. Deselect "ExcludePolys"
7. Zoom in to level 15 (notice level in bottom left of screen)
8. Click a location on the map and hit "Delineate" to discover the water source for that location
USGS
There are four USGS gauges along FLOYDS FORK that provide excellent information. Discover the height, speed, clarity, temperature, PH levels and many other data points.
Go directly to a Floyds Fork USGS gauge:
1. Ash Ave/Peewee Valley
2. Fisherville
3. Mt. Washington (The Parklands entrance at Bardstown Rd)
4. Shepherdsville (just before the Salt River input)
MSD
Read the MSD Design Manual
This MSD Design Manual is a guide for the planning and design of stormwater systems, flood protection works, sanitary sewers, erosion control structures, small sanitary pump stations, small wastewater treatment plants and associated activities for the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District.
Link: MSD Rain Gauge
LOJIC
Louisville and Jefferson County Information Consortium
Maps (and so much more) for Louisville.
LOJIC Online (most common maps)
Additional LOJIC maps (even more under each tab)
Division of Water (DOW)
This Quick Guide will help you understand more about why and how communities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky manage floodplains and regulate floodplain development to protect people and property.
NOAA National Weather Service
How much rain equals a 100-year flood in your area? 50-yr? 10-yr?
Click the NOAA link and type your address to find out.
Additional NOAA Resources:
Build a Watershed activity
Watershed and Rainscaping lesson
Watershed, Flooding, & Pollution
NSSL Research: Flooding
and MANY MORE!
COCORAHS
Join the thousands of people tracking rain events around the country. Get a 4" rain gage that can hold up to 13" and update your information daily (or as often as you are able).
FYI: COCORAHS is an acronym for Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
EPA - Sediment Control
Kentucky Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Field Guide
This Field Guide will take you through the erosion and sediment control process. The guide starts out with sections on pre-project planning and operational activities. The rest of the guide discusses erosion prevention and sediment control by starting at the top of the hill, above the project site, and proceeding down the slope through the bare soil area, ditches and channels, traps and basins, and on down to the waterways below.
KYTC - Environmental Overview
USGS - rain drop flow
Ever wonder the path of a rain drop?
StreamStats
1. Click the StreamStats link
2. Click on "Exploration Tools"
3. Click "Show your location"
4. Click "Flow (Raindrop) Path"
5. Click "Select a point on map" from the pop-up window
6. Click on the map
7. Click "Go" on pop-up window
USGS
What is feeding this waterway?USGS has many extremely powerful data tools. StreamStats is a great place to start.
StreamStats: Discover all the upstream locations that flow to a specific location
1. Click the StreamStats link
2. Type "FLOYDS FORK" in the search
3. Select the first one "FLOYDS FORK Division"
4. Select Kentucky
5. On the right, under "Layers" click "KY Map Layers"
6. Deselect "ExcludePolys"
7. Zoom in to level 15 (notice level in bottom left of screen)
8. Click a location on the map and hit "Delineate" to discover the water source for that location
USGS
There are four USGS gauges along FLOYDS FORK that provide excellent information. Discover the height, speed, clarity, temperature, PH levels and many other data points.
Go directly to a Floyds Fork USGS gauge:
1. Ash Ave/Peewee Valley
2. Fisherville
3. Mt. Washington (The Parklands entrance at Bardstown Rd)
4. Shepherdsville (just before the Salt River input)
MSD
Read the MSD Design Manual
This MSD Design Manual is a guide for the planning and design of stormwater systems, flood protection works, sanitary sewers, erosion control structures, small sanitary pump stations, small wastewater treatment plants and associated activities for the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District.
Link: MSD Rain Gauge
LOJIC
Louisville and Jefferson County Information Consortium
Maps (and so much more) for Louisville.
LOJIC Online (most common maps)
Additional LOJIC maps (even more under each tab)
Division of Water (DOW)
This Quick Guide will help you understand more about why and how communities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky manage floodplains and regulate floodplain development to protect people and property.
NOAA National Weather Service
How much rain equals a 100-year flood in your area? 50-yr? 10-yr?
Click the NOAA link and type your address to find out.
Additional NOAA Resources:
Build a Watershed activity
Watershed and Rainscaping lesson
Watershed, Flooding, & Pollution
NSSL Research: Flooding
and MANY MORE!
COCORAHS
Join the thousands of people tracking rain events around the country. Get a 4" rain gage that can hold up to 13" and update your information daily (or as often as you are able).
FYI: COCORAHS is an acronym for Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
EPA - Sediment Control
Kentucky Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control Field Guide
This Field Guide will take you through the erosion and sediment control process. The guide starts out with sections on pre-project planning and operational activities. The rest of the guide discusses erosion prevention and sediment control by starting at the top of the hill, above the project site, and proceeding down the slope through the bare soil area, ditches and channels, traps and basins, and on down to the waterways below.
KYTC - Environmental Overview