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  2. List of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).

  3. List of mammals of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state. This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs . Several species recently lived wild in Pennsylvania, but are now extirpated (locally, but not globally, extinct).

  4. Category:Reservoirs in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Dams in Pennsylvania (1 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Reservoirs in Pennsylvania" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.

  5. Lake Wallenpaupack - Wikipedia

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    Lake Wallenpaupack is a reservoir in Northeastern Pennsylvania.After Raystown Lake, it is the second-largest lake contained entirely in Pennsylvania.It comprises 52 miles (84 kilometers) of shoreline, with a length of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and a maximum depth of 60 feet (18 meters), and has a surface area in excess of 5,700 acres (2,300 hectares).

  6. Geology of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    This section includes Pennsylvania's highest point, Mount Davis, which stands at 3,213 feet (979 m) above sea level. Many of the mountains are long and broad with relatively shallow and broad valleys. Unlike the Appalachian Mountain section, the streams of this area have not cut deep and well defined valleys into the earth.

  7. List of dams and reservoirs of the Susquehanna River

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    The dams slow water, trapping silt and pollutants. Conowingo Dam [1] is credited with preventing much of the silt from Pennsylvania from reaching the Chesapeake Bay. The dam spillways can add oxygen to the water. The down stream side of dams is favored by aquatic birds, possibly because the fish that pass through the dam are a bit stunned.

  8. Geography of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Western Pennsylvania, which comprises roughly a third of the state, is a separate large geophysical unit.Several factors set Western Pennsylvania apart from the east, including the initial difficulty of access across the mountains, rivers oriented to the Mississippi River drainage system, and complex economics involved in the rise and decline of the American steel industry centered in and ...

  9. Kettle Creek State Park - Wikipedia

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    Alvin R. Bush Dam. Alvin R. Bush Dam on Kettle Creek is an earth and rockfill, flood control dam. It stands at a maximum height of 165 feet (50 m) above the stream bed and is 1,350 feet (410 m) across. The reservoir has a capacity of 75,000 acre feet (93,000,000 m 3) at the spillway crest. It covers 167 acres (68 ha) and is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) long.

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