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This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Main Line of Public Works was a package of legislation passed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1826 [a] to establish a means of transporting freight [b] between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. It funded the construction of various long-proposed canal and road projects, mostly in southern Pennsylvania, that became a canal system and later ...
The Raystown Branch Juniata River is the largest and longest tributary of the Juniata River in south-central Pennsylvania in the United States. [4]The Raystown Branch Juniata River begins along the Allegheny Front in Somerset County and flows 123 miles (198 km) to the confluence with the Juniata River near Huntingdon. [5]
Compare this map with its major roads of today and its terrains with the above canal system map. The Susquehanna Canal of the Pennsylvania Canal System was funded and authorized as part of the 1826 Main Line of Public Works enabling act, and would later become the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal under the Pennsylvania Canal Commission.
Juniata County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,509. [1] Its county seat is Mifflintown. [2] The county was created on March 2, 1831, from part of Mifflin County and named for the Juniata River.
The Main Line of Public Works and the Pennsylvania Canal system topped 2,100 feet (640 m) in elevation by erecting the Allegheny Portage Railroad, which used a system of five inclines and five planes on each side of the Eastern Continental Divide at Cresson Pass in Cambria County to actually haul wheeled flat cars, which had halved canal boats ...
Pennsylvania Route 232 (PA 232) is a 25.2-mile-long (40.6 km) state highway located in southeastern Pennsylvania. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 1 (US 1)/ US 13 at the Oxford Circle in Philadelphia .
Pennsylvania Route 706 Truck in Susquehanna County was a truck route that bypassed a weight-restricted bridge on PA 706 over Pettis Creek on which trucks over 31 tons and combination loads over 40 tons were prohibited. It follows Ridge Road and PA 29 and it runs entirely concurrent with PA 267 Truck. It was signed in 2013.