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The watershed of Monroe Creek has an area of 6.64 square miles (17.2 km 2). [2] The mouth of the creek is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Factoryville. However, its source is in the quadrangle of Hop Bottom. [4] The creek's mouth is located at Starkville. [2] The designated use for Monroe Creek is aquatic life. [3]
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
Tunkhannock Creek looking downstream near Nicholson The Tunkhannock Viaduct crossing over the creek near Nicholson, Pennsylvania. Tunkhannock Creek is a 42.3-mile-long (68.1 km) [1] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Map of Monroe County (without text). Date: 9 October 2006: Source: Source image taken from the United States Census Bureau's website pa_cosub.pdf. Image was modified by Ram-Man. Author (c)2006 Derek Ramsey (from U.S. Census Bureau source) Permission (Reusing this file)
A proposed zoning map for Monroe County. Areas in green are designated rural, yellow is residential and pink industrial. Monroe County is updating documents that will dictate how land will be used ...
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 most noteworthy feature of this township is the Tunkhannock creek, which forms "Long Pond", and is designated by the PA DEP as an Exceptional Value Waters (EV). [4] The Bethlehem Authority, [ 5 ] Nature Conservancy, [ 6 ] Wildlands Conservancy [ 7 ] County of Monroe Open Space Program, and PA Department of Forest and Waters [ 8 ] have ...
Well over 128 million US gallons (480,000 m 3) of water from the dams alone poured down the valley, and by dawn Johnstown was inundated with six feet (1.8 m) of water. The channel improvements were designed to carry 81,500 cu ft/s (2,310 m 3 /s), but the 1977 flood discharge was measured as 115,000 cu ft/s (3,300 m 3 /s). [ 3 ]