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The Susquehanna River forms from two main branches: the North Branch, which rises in Cooperstown, New York, and is regarded by federal mapmakers as the main branch or headwaters, [11] and the West Branch, which rises in western Pennsylvania and joins the main branch near Northumberland in central Pennsylvania.
The Susquehanna River, in the Mid-Atlantic States of the United States, has a collection of dams. These dams are used for power generation, flood control, navigation and recreation. The first dams at Sunbury, Pennsylvania were to support year round ferry crossings. The dams slow water, trapping silt and pollutants.
The Dock Street Dam is a low-head dam that crosses the Susquehanna River between the Shipoke neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the east shore and Lemoyne on the west shore. It is constructed of hollow, reinforced concrete buttress dam and was built to create recreational depth as a 3-mile lake, provide flood control, prevent ...
The Williamsport Dam, officially known as the Hepburn Street Dam, is a low-head dam on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It broke ground in 1984 and was finished in the spring of 1986. It was built for recreation, such as boating, watersports and fishing. It has been described as a "killer dam" and a "drowning ...
The West Branch Susquehanna River is one of the two principal branches, along with the North Branch, of the Susquehanna River in the Northeastern United States.The North Branch, which rises in upstate New York, is generally regarded as the extension of the main branch, [4] with the shorter West Branch being its principal tributary.
Powell Creek (on federal maps since 2004: Powells Creek [1]) is a 16.5-mile-long (26.6 km) [2] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. [3] It is formed by the junction of its North and South forks southwest of Carsonville. The creek flows southwest along the northern side of Peters Mountain.
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A category of rivers and streams which drain the Susquehanna River watershed. It is located in eastern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland , and is a drainage basin into the Chesapeake Bay watershed .