Project #29: Mill Creek Center Hill Landfill

Abstract

GEOMORPHIC SETTING: The Mill Creek watershed comprises 166 square miles in the heart of Hamilton County, Ohio. Despite the fact that the watershed as a whole is very flashy, the Creek itself is relatively stable and exhibits slow rates of change, largely due to the presence of dense, tightly varved glacial lakebed clays which confine the channel bed and lower banks. The watershed consists predominantly of developed urban areas with pockets of forested land. Small areas of land under park and agricultural use still exist in the northern portion of the watershed. The lower 8 miles of the Mill Creek have been permanently modified by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) through the construction of a concrete lined flood control channel (Fig. 1).