Turtle Creek Flood Gates near North Braddock, PA

(Satellite)

I was able to find the location of the flood gates because of the George Westinghouse Bridge on the left side of this photo.

Michael Pearce posted
Flood Gates

Bill Ireland: 2008 or 2009 last flood

James J Valentine: I'm thinking the 3 Pumps were capable of 1 million gallons per minute. Electric came from the Power Plant in the center of the plant.

These gates are closed when the Monongahela River is getting too high. They stop the flood water from flowing back up Turtle Creek and flooding the Westinghouse Plant. The 1m gpm pumps are needed to move the Turtle Creek storm water into the Monongahela River when the gates are down.