Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Oaks Creek, Unadilla River, Chenango River, Chemung River, West Branch, Juniata River The Susquehanna River ( / ˌ s ʌ s k w ə ˈ h æ n ə / SUSS -kwə- HAN -ə ; Lenape : Siskëwahane [ 7 ] ) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland).
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 Berwick Axis, which is also known as the Montour Axis, crosses the Susquehanna River half a mile downstream of the mouth of Little Wapwallopen Creek. There is concealed Marcellus shale near the creek in Hollenback Township. [11] The water temperature of Little Wapwallopen Creek near Wapwallopen was measured several times during the 1970s ...
Slab Cabin Run is an 11.2-mile-long (18.0 km) [1] tributary of Spring Creek in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States. [2]Slab Cabin Run joins Spring Creek at Houserville.
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.
Cabin Creek is a 11.0-mile-long (17.7 km) [1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in York County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Cabin Creek joins the Susquehanna near the outskirts of East Prospect borough.