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Waldameer Park & Water World is an amusement park and water park at the base of Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Waldameer is the fourth oldest amusement park in Pennsylvania, the tenth oldest in the nation, and one of only thirteen trolley parks still operating in the country. [ 1 ]
Presque Isle State Park (/ p r ɛ s k / PRESK) is a 3,112-acre (1,259 ha) Pennsylvania State Park on an arching, sandy peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, 4 miles (6 km) west of the city of Erie, in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.
Erie: 12/30/1982: 09/08/1983: 09/30/1996: N/A: N/A PAD980231690: Mill Creek Dump Erie: 09/08/1983: 09/21/1984: 09/26/2001: N/A: N/A PAD980508865: Presque Isle: Erie: A hydrogen sulfide-containing black liquid seeped into Beach #7 at the Presque Isle State Park. The source was an unplugged natural gas well, which was subsequently plugged with ...
The storm left much of the 140-acre park flooded, and it was never reopened. ... 1986. When the core of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, an amusement park had been set ...
In this 2018 file photo, beachgoers leave Presque Isle State Park's Beach 11 due to high levels of E. coli bacteria. E. coli levels have cut short swimming seasons at the popular beach twice in ...
This watershed, which covers 65 km 2, consists of lands in the City of Erie and two neighboring townships which surround three direct runoff zones, including Presque Isle State Park, and two sub-watersheds, which all feed into Presque Isle Bay. At its eastern extreme, the bay has a small channel that drains into Lake Erie.
Picnic pavilions: 888-PA-PARKS. Boat tours: Presque Isle State Park near Perry Monument: 814-836-0201. Tom Ridge Environmental Center: 301 Peninsula Drive. 814-833-7424. Paddling around: The ins ...
Mill Creek is a 19-mile (31 km) long tributary of Lake Erie in Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It flows from Millcreek Township through the city of Erie, into Presque Isle Bay. Much of the creek in the city was channeled into the Mill Creek Tube, which was constructed after Mill Creek's disastrous flood struck the city in 1915.