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Delaware River. The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New York, the river flows for 282 miles (454 km) [1] along the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware ...
Swatara Creek. Swatara Creek (nicknamed the Swatty) is a 72-mile-long (116 km) [1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in east-central Pennsylvania in the United States. It rises in the Appalachian Mountains in central Schuylkill County and passes through northwest Lebanon County before draining into the Susquehanna at Middletown in Dauphin County.
The Schuylkill River (/ ˈskuːlkɪl / SKOOL-kil, [1] locally / ˈskuːkəl / SKOO-kəl) [2] is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for 135 miles (217 km) [3] from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries. The river's watershed of about 2,000 sq mi (5,180 km 2) lies entirely ...
3300 Preble Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15233. Employees. 2,500. Agency executive. Arletta Scott Williams, Executive Director. Website. alcosan.org. Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (also known as ALCOSAN) is a municipal authority in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania that provides wastewater treatment services to 83 communities, including the city of ...
40°28′55″N 79°33′25″W / 40.482°N 79.557°W / 40.482; -79.557. Type. reservoir. Surface elevation. 1,053 feet (321 m) Beaver Run Reservoir (also known as Beaver Dam Reservoir) is a reservoir in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 23 miles (37 km) east of Pittsburgh. [1] The elevation of Beaver Run ...
Appearance. Drinking water quality in the United States is generally safe. In 2016, over 90 percent of the nation's community water systems were in compliance with all published U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) standards. [ 1 ] Over 286 million Americans get their tap water from a community water system.
The Lehigh River is a 109-mile-long (175 km) [1] tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania. The river flows in a generally southward pattern from the Pocono Mountains in Northeastern Pennsylvania through Allentown and much of the Lehigh Valley before joining the Delaware River in Easton. Part of the Lehigh River and a number of ...
In 1777, British soldiers breached dikes and floodwalls that were constructed on the creek. The Pennsylvania legislature passed an act in 1788 that mandated a maintenance of the dikes and the mowing of plants such as elderberries and pokeweed three times a year. [20] Early English colonists utilized Darby Creek as a source of water power.