Geospatial data sets and hydraulic models for the Cuyahoga River near Jaite, Ohio

Digital flood-inundation maps for a nearly 6-mile reach of the Cuyahoga River at Jaite, Ohio, were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Board of Commissioners. The flood-inundation maps, which can be accessed through the USGS Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) Program website at https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/flood-inunda…, depict estimates of the areal extent and depth of flooding corresponding to selected water levels (stages) at the USGS streamgage on the Cuyahoga River at Jaite, Ohio (station number 04206425). Near-real-time stages at this streamgage can be obtained from the USGS National Water Information System at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ or the National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service at  https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/JAIO1, which also forecasts flood hydrographs at this site.

The availability of these maps, along with internet information regarding current stage from the USGS streamgage and forecasted high-flow stages from the NWS, will provide emergency management personnel and residents with information that is critical for flood response activities, such as evacuations and road closures, as well as for postflood recovery efforts.

There are three child items that contain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS Model inputs and outputs and final geospatial datasets for the flood-inundation maps: depth grids and shapefiles.