Since the St. Patrick’s Day Flood, the Army Corps of Engineers has built 16 dams and lakes in the Pittsburgh district, which includes the Alle-Kiski Valley, to control flood waters. Remove the ...

LOWELL – Patrick Henry Flood, 85, a resident of Lowell’s Highlands ... A veteran of World War II, Mr. Flood served as a machinist in the U.S. Army Air Corps stationed in New Jersey.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ... nature took over. The great St. Patrick’s Day Flood of 1936 had begun. By 7 p.m. on March 18, the confluence of the three rivers at Pittsburgh’s Point ...