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The creek's mouth opens to Lake Erie about one-half mile north of Pennsylvania Route 5 at Water Street. It draws its name from its location four miles (6 km) east of the center of Erie, Pennsylvania. The watershed consists of portions of Greene, Harborcreek, and Lawrence Park townships, as well as Wesleyville, Pennsylvania. Fish migration ...
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The watersheds are located in the states of Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in the United States, and in the province of Ontario in Canada. The basin is part of the Great Lakes Basin and Saint Lawrence River Watershed, which feeds into the Atlantic Ocean . 80% of the lake's water flows in from the Detroit River , with only 9 ...
The Honey Hollow Watershed is a 650-acre (2.6 km 2) watershed on the south side of the Delaware River a few miles north of New Hope, Pennsylvania. It is the site of the first privately owned soil conservation district in the United States. Created by five landowners in 1933, it was successful in mitigating the effects of erosion caused by the ...
Mahanoy Creek is a 51.6-mile-long (83.0 km) [1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Northumberland and Schuylkill counties, Pennsylvania.There are at least 35 sources of acid mine drainage in the creek's watershed.
The remaining 6 percent of the watershed's land is residential, urban, and industrial. [14] The creek's watershed takes up the largest portion of Union County for any watershed. The drainage pattern of the watershed is dendritic. [13] The Buffalo Creek watershed receives 42 inches (110 cm) of precipitation on average. The average temperature is ...
Mead Run drains 5.61 square miles (14.5 km 2) of the Pennsylvania High Plateau province and is underlaid by the Venango Formation, Corry Sandstone through Riceville Formation, and the Shenango through Cuyahoga Group. [6] The watershed receives an average of 44.0 in/year of precipitation and has a wetness index of 378.06. [4]
The Peters Creek watershed is a diverse fifty square miles in southwestern Allegheny County and northeastern Washington County. From the heavy industry in the east where Peters Creek enters the Monongahela River, to the commercial northeast, the suburban northern communities, and the still rural and farming south, the watershed is a veritable patchwork of land use types.