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Add overview of Ohio River flood of 1937 to the History section.

Contents 1 Volume of water 2 Geological age of river 2.1 age of ohio river 2.2 what is the age of the Ohio River? 2.3 what is the age of the Ohio River? 3 Erosion 3.1 is there any erosion problems? 4 Bridge Picture 5 Map 6 Apr 2007 edits

[edit] Volume of water

The Ohio's volume of water is a questonable claim. The Missouri River is usually larger, and at times (depending on weather) the Tennessee River is also larger. Lou I 16:20, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

In fact, the statement about the Ohio River having more discharge (volume of water per second) than the Missouri River is entirely correct, as a general rule. The Ohio River drains a large, very humid region and as a result carries more water. The US Corps of Engineers maintains a very extensive system of dams on the Ohio River. The Corps and US Geological Survey carefully measure flow in the Ohio River. Otherwise, maintaining stable water surfaces would be impossible.

You can check out flow at any given moment for rivers that are monitored at: http://water.usgs.gov/

Select Real-Time Data. You can search for specific rivers and streams or... you can also click on the map in the upper right corner at http://water.usgs.gov/ and see the conditions of rivers throughout the United States. DirtBoy 18:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geological age of river

[edit] age of ohio river

Studies by Dr. Darryl Granger of Purdue University have very convincingly shown that the Ohio River formed at or slightly prior to 3 million years. Further development continued for 100s of thousands of years.

[edit] what is the age of the Ohio River?

It is 2.5 to 3 million years old.

[edit] what is the age of the Ohio River?

If no one is answering, it's probably because no one who has seen this knows the answer. Try Wikipedia:Reference desk. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:22, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Erosion

[edit] is there any erosion problems?

No more than any other large river. Some areas have a major problem and others are essentially stable. One area strongly affected by erosion is in southeast Ohio where a tragic barge accident temporily(sp?) disabled a dam in early 2005. Water levels fell quickly and without the river pushing back, the water-pressurized banks began collapsing for large distances upstream.

[edit] Bridge Picture

The bridge in the picture is not the US Grant Bridge. It is, in fact, the Carl D. Perkins Bridge, located about a mile from the Grant Bridge. The new Grant Bridge has not been completed.

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Dblevins2 30 June 2005 03:54 (UTC)

where is the ohio river

[edit] Map

Please include a color map of the whole Ohio River

I added one Kmusser 15:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apr 2007 edits

Since an anon keeps restoring it, I'll say that I believe this statement to be incorrect: "The Ohio River is the second largest river in North America, the 6th largest in the Western Hemisphere, and the 12th largest river in world." When I deleted it, I also changed the discharge figure in the infobox using a cited source -- the previous figure was not cited, and was larger than the discharge figure presently on the Mississippi River page, which makes no sense. Please respond here if anyone disagrees. Thanks --Female peasant 16:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

The Ohio River is larger than the Mississippi where the two meet, plus much of the Mississippi discharges into wetlands in LA & MS before entering the ocean, whereas the Ohio flows through harder soils and has very few wetlands. The discharge figures are from the Army Cores page, which is given in real time. It is a tributary of the Mississippi in name only, if the naming had taken place in modern times, everything below Cairo would be called the Ohio River because it is the larger of the two rivers at the confluence.

Usually when talking about rivers "largest" refers to length not width. If named today everything below St. Louis would be called the Missouri River. Discharge figures should ideally be annual averages, using a real-time value now when flows are at their highest is going to be an inflated value compared to other rivers. Kmusser 20:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)